[Remote] Tax Accountant (CPA/CA) | $70/hr Remote

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Crossing Hurdles is seeking an accountant for a remote contract role evaluating U.S. sales and use tax statutes and regulations. The role involves creating review rubrics, assessing AI-generated interpretations, and documenting discrepancies and ambiguities.

Responsibilities

• Read and interpret sales and use tax statutes and regulations across US state jurisdictions
• Author rubrics by breaking a section of law into a checklist of discrete requirements
• Assign severity to each requirement based on statutory weight
• Review AI's formal translation of a statute and score it pass/fail against your rubric
• Write clear, self-contained test scenarios for failed criteria
• Identify and flag discrepancies, statutory exceptions, and genuine ambiguities in the law
• Work within a digital review platform, submitting structured written evaluations

Skills

• Proven ability to read and interpret tax statutes and regulations
• Comfort working with legal logic: conditions, thresholds, AND/OR structures, exceptions, and defined terms
• Strong written communication with a focus on precision
• High attention to detail, especially around 'except for' clauses and edge cases
• Comfort providing structured feedback through a digital review interface
• Sales and use tax or broader state and local tax statutory experience strongly preferred

Benefits

• Remote work

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