Tax Practitioner, Federal Individual Income Tax (CPA/EA/Tax Attorney) remote job
The Federal Individual Income Tax Practitioner job is a remote contract role for CPAs, Enrolled Agents and tax attorneys in the US or India. You would turn Internal Revenue Code provisions into scoring rubrics, grade AI-generated tax analyses against them and write test scenarios.
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Role facts, as shown on the listing
- Pay
- $60–$90 per hour
- Taken from the listing's pay field; the written description does not repeat a rate.
- Our arithmetic on the listed ranges: the midpoint here is $75 an hour, number 6 of the 8 Law & tax roles on this site; midpoints there run from $62.50 to $270.
- Hours
- Not stated in the listing
- Location
- Remote (US or India)
- Contract
- Contractor
- Openings
- 1 (as listed)
- Listed
- 30 Oct 2026
- Checked
- 6 Nov 2026
- Field
- Law & Tax
- Federal individual income tax law interpretation
- Internal revenue code analysis
- Tax research and compliance
- Written communication
- Legal logic and reasoning
- Rubric and checklist development
- AI-generated content evaluation
- Scenario creation and testing
What the work involves
- Interpret federal individual income tax law at the subsection level, across the Internal Revenue Code, Treasury regulations and IRS guidance.
- Write rubrics and checklists that define a correct answer, grounded in authoritative sources, rating each requirement as critical, secondary or minor.
- Score AI-generated tax analyses and computations against those criteria for accuracy and completeness.
- Write self-contained test scenarios, edge cases included, with facts, dates, filing status and expected results, and flag ambiguities or conflicts in the guidance.
Before you apply: what the listing asks for
Listed as preferred
- An active CPA license, an Enrolled Agent designation, or experience as a US tax attorney focused on federal individual income tax.
- Extensive hands-on work preparing or planning federal personal income tax for individuals.
- Interpreting the Code and guidance beyond simple return preparation, including conditions, thresholds, phase-outs and exceptions.
- Exceptional written communication, with clear, objective and reproducible criteria.
- Familiarity with complex return issues such as investments, self-employment, equity compensation, rental property or multi-state items.
The listing sets no separate list of required qualifications.
Who this is not for
Not a fit if your tax work is mostly basic return preparation, or if you are outside the US and India.
Questions about this role
Can I apply from India?
The listing gives the location as remote (US or India).
What does the Tax Practitioner job pay?
The listing's pay field shows $60 to $90 per hour. The description gives no rate or weekly hours.
Source: the role's job listing on micro1. Facts were checked on 6 Nov 2026; the description above is condensed and reworded by us. Confirm details on the original listing before you apply.