Tax Resolutions Associate
Join a high-calibre unit built on legal, HMRC, and tax firepower, owning client disputes, navigating high-stakes HMRC enquiries, and shaping the future of compliant innovation funding in the UK.
📌 Job Title: Tax Resolutions Associate
📍 Location: Northampton – Office Based
💷 Salary: Negotiable + Bonus
📊 Reporting to: Tax Resolutions Manager
🚀 Join the Team Solving Complex Tax Disputes
We’re CBTax. Award-winning, fast-growing, and fiercely ambitious. As one of the UK & Ireland's leading R&D tax consultancies, we’re not here to play small. And now, our Tax Resolutions team is looking for its next associate: someone analytical, inquisitive, and ready to step into the ring with HMRC.
You’ll work with specialists from legal, accounting, tax, and HMRC backgrounds responding to compliance challenges, building client cases, and helping defend innovation across the UK.
If you’re ready to elevate your career and grow under real mentorship, this is it.
🧠 What You’ll Do
• Client Engagement: Be a key contact for businesses undergoing tax disputes
• Case Strategy: Analyse client positions and shape persuasive resolution plans
• HMRC Liaison: Draft written responses, coordinate communication, and attend mediations
• Document Mastery: Build detailed case packs—financials, narratives, disclosures
• Multi-Case Management: Juggle deadlines, track progress, and update clients with clarity
• Research & Advocacy: Stay sharp on tax policy, and argue each case with conviction
🎯 You’ll Thrive If You…
• Have a background in law, tax, psychology, sociology, or related fields
• Have HMRC exposure (bonus points if you’ve been in the ring before)
• Are a strong writer and confident communicator
• Want structure, mentorship, and real progression
💼 Perks & Benefits
• Performance Bonus
• Bupa Private Healthcare
• 5% Pension Contribution
• Electric Car & Cycle to Work Scheme
• Tech Purchase Scheme
• Lifestyle Flex Benefits
• Recognition + Promotion Pathways
👀 Why CBTax?
Because we don’t just file claims, we fuel growth.
We help bold companies translate innovation into millions in R&D returns across engineering, tech, pharma, and more.
If you want a career, not a job, welcome to CBTax.
🤝 Inclusion
We welcome talent from all backgrounds. If you need any accommodations during the recruitment process, let us know.
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- Locations
- Northampton
About CBTax
CBTax are a leading professional tax consultancy practice operating across the whole of the UK, specialising in R&D Tax Relief claims. With a wealth of experience from qualified, experienced Chartered Tax Advisers, leading Sector Specialists, Chartered Accountants and Research Analysts.
Our team have knowledge of diverse sectors, tax and industry-based experience to maximise our clients R&D Tax Relief claims.
CBTax won the SME - Apprentice Employer of the Year 2024, the Accounting Excellence – Fast-track Firm of the Year 2022 award, previously winning NBEA – Northamptonshire Business of the Year Award 2021 and are finalist for the NBEA – Employer of the Year 2022.
Tax Resolutions Associate
Join a high-calibre unit built on legal, HMRC, and tax firepower, owning client disputes, navigating high-stakes HMRC enquiries, and shaping the future of compliant innovation funding in the UK.
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