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Originally posted by taxwonk
Suppose for the sake of argument that a tax lawyer was tired of all the games and wanted to try life from the inside. First off, is the IRS hiring? Same for DOJ or Treasury. What sort of jobs do they have for people at a fairly senior level of experience? Is the pay cut offset by benefits, a slower pace, or the joy of working for the angels?
Any insights or thoughts would be helpful.
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What type of tax law? That is, do you want to do trial work? I'm vaguely familiar with DOJ tax, through others, and from what I can tell people are very happy there. But I think they tend to me more junior people. The senior people have either been around a while or, at the highest level, are politicos. But that's not to say you couldn't go there even at a more advanced point in your career.
As for IRS, dunno, but I thought IRS didn't do much real lawyering--tax policy is done at treasury and enforcement against tax cheats is done by DOJ. But maybe there's something else that IRS needs lawyers for (other than HR type stuff)
