Legal Advisor

4 weeks ago


Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom HMRC Full time
About HMRC Solicitor's Office and Legal Service

HMRC Solicitor's Office and Legal Service provides legal advice on issues arising from HMRC's work and conducts HMRC's litigation. Our work impacts the lives of millions, as we help to collect the money that pays for the UK's public services and provide targeted financial support to families and individuals.

Our Work

We work in supportive, specialist teams, that handle a broad range of different areas of law including general public law (human rights, administrative law, freedom of information) tax law, commercial law, insolvency law, information law and criminal law, employer's liability for personal injury, focusing on either policy and operational advisory work or litigation.

What 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
  • Fascinating technical work
  • Opportunities to work on complex legal issues that make a positive difference to the nation's finances
Our Team

We have around 1572 people including lawyers, tax professionals, advocates, paralegals and administrators. Our strength is in our diverse people and the inclusive working culture that brings us together.

What You'll Do

You will advise HMRC and Treasury ministers on a wide variety of taxes, including business tax, personal tax, customs, excise, environmental taxes and VAT law. You will 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.

Commercial Lawyers

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.

Criminal Lawyers

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 Lawyers

Our 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.

Why Join Us

We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, taking into account our operational and customer service needs. We offer a friendly and helpful community, with opportunities to grow in confidence and enjoy a good work-life balance.


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