U.S based Accountant (CPA/CA)
Listing checked September 4, 2026 · pay as published by Micro1
Overview
US sales and use tax interpretation sits at the center of this contract, and your work helps train AI systems that are still learning tax law. You'll read statutes across multiple states, break each one into precise conditions, and then judge whether an AI-generated translation captures those conditions correctly. You don't need prior AI experience. What matters is your ability to read a law at subsection level and turn it into a testable checklist of requirements.
What You'll Do7
- 1Read state-level sales and use tax statutes and regulations at the subsection level, including occasional federal tax provisions.
- 2Build rubrics that turn each section of law into a checklist of discrete requirements the AI translation must meet, using only the statute text.
- 3Assign a severity level, critical, secondary, or minor, to each rubric requirement based on its real weight in the law.
- 4Score the AI's formal translation pass or fail against your rubric, ensuring conditions, thresholds, AND/OR logic, and exceptions are all reflected.
- 5Create self-contained test scenarios for any failed criterion, with concrete facts, dates, amounts, and the outcome you expect.
- 6Flag statutory exceptions, discrepancies, and genuine ambiguities that you find in the source law.
- 7Submit structured written evaluations through the digital review platform.
Requirements7
- 1Active CPA license, Chartered Accountant designation, or experience as a US tax attorney.
- 2Sales and use tax, or broader state and local tax statutory experience, strongly preferred.
- 3Demonstrated ability to read and interpret tax statutes and regulations, not just prepare returns.
- 4Comfort with legal logic: conditions, thresholds, AND/OR structures, exceptions, and defined terms.
- 5Precise written style that lets another reviewer reach the same judgment from your criteria.
- 6Strong attention to detail, especially around 'except for' clauses and edge cases.
- 7Ability to deliver structured feedback through a digital review interface.
Who Should Apply
Accountants and tax attorneys who enjoy interpreting statutes more than preparing returns will do well here. If you expect a collaborative tax team and daily calls, this independent writing-heavy contract will not feel like that. Candidates who have never analyzed legal text clause by clause, or who dislike documenting their reasoning, tend to be a poor fit. The most common reasons people don't advance are defaulting every requirement to critical rather than weighing the statute, and writing rubrics that leave too much room for interpretation.
Salary Insight
The posting states pay of $65 to $70 per hour. Any additional terms or benefits are not listed and would come up in later conversations.
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