Lawyer (or Legal Officer- up to 1 years PQE)

Why HMRC? Things at HMRC probably dont work the way youd think.Tired of constant 60-hour plus weeks and the corporate grind?Would you like to work on complex legal issues that make a positive difference to the nations finances? If youre nodding your head reading this, youve come to the right place.We offer hybrid working, with a 60% average office attendance (and court time is counted as office hours), actual flexitime and genuine work-life balance alongside fascinating technical work.Advisory LawyersOur advisory lawyers give advice on the interpretation and application of legislation. This includes advising HMRC and Treasury ministers on a wide variety of taxes, including business tax, personal tax, customs, excise, environmental taxes and VAT law. We also advise on other issues, such as welfare, insolvency, information law and international law and treaties. Our advice encompasses areas of public and administrative law. We implement policy through primary and secondary legislation, including through the annual Finance Bill. We support policy colleagues at all stages of the parliamentary process as well as drafting a high volume of statutory instruments.Our commercial lawyers give advice on high value and complex public procurement and contractual commercial legal issues within government. This includes providing legal support to HMRC's largest transformation programmes including IT and Estates. We support HMRCs day to day banking and general commercial operations, including all aspects of commercial contracts, intellectual property rights, public procurement and state aid, contract and supplier management, and dispute resolution.Our criminal lawyers give advice and support to investigators and policy makers, supporting HMRC's tax enforcement activity in investigating serious complex fraud and other criminal non-compliance.Litigation LawyersOur litigation lawyers conduct litigation across the full range of HMRC work. We litigate some of the most challenging and important high value, complex Government litigation. These include big money tax cases and cases ranging from resisting judicial review challenges to litigating civil cases against those who benefit from the proceeds of crime. Our cases will often involve novel and challenging points of law and contribute to developing the interpretation of the law. We regularly litigate through the higher courts to the Supreme Court.Who are we looking for?We are recruiting qualified lawyers and we would like you to apply whatever level of experience you have.We have vacancies for lawyers in both our advisory and litigation work. You do not need any existing knowledge of our work or tax experience. We will give you training and support to develop your knowledge and expertise and you can expect to move teams within our diverse practice every few years to build up your skills and experience.If you have already developed a specialism in any of our work areas, wed be keen to know about that, so please tell us about it in your application form. Please bear in mind that you will be offered a role in order of merit and not necessarily within your specialism.Diversity, inclusion and equalityWe want everyone to feel valued, supported and comfortable being their true self at work. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer, supporting social mobility and giving opportunities to people no matter what their background. Thats why we have several staff diversity networks including race, disability, LGBTQ, gender and carers. Youll be able join any of these networks (and more as part of HMRC) when you join us and getting involved is easy.When you join us, you join a friendly and helpful community. Well give you the support you need to grow in confidence, help you enjoy your time inside and outside the workplace ensuring you have a good work-life balance. We believe that we are a great place to work.For more information on our diversity networks see page 7 of the Your Little Extras and Big Benefits booklet.Disability Confident SchemeWe run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you consider yourself to have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010, you can apply under that scheme.Well invite you to attend an interview if you: Meet all aspects of the eligibility criteria. Meet the standard set in the online tests and against any job specific criteria.