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About the Role
Mercor is collaborating with a leading AI lab to engage experienced tax professionals. You'll translate real tax compliance, provision, and planning work into structured, high-quality training data that teaches AI to reason about how tax accountants actually work. Tax - across corporate, individual, partnership / pass-through, SALT, and international sub-specialties.
What You'll Do
Design realistic scenarios from your tax work - return preparation (1040 / 1120 / 1120-S / 1065), tax provision (ASC 740), responses to notices / IDRs and controversy support, tax planning and estimated payments
Review and compare AI-generated tax outputs for technical accuracy and defensible positions
Provide clear written feedback that improves how AI performs tax tasks
Collaborate asynchronously with the research team
You're a Good Fit If You
CPA or EA (Enrolled Agent)
A clear tax sub-specialty - corporate, individual, partnership, SALT, or international / cross-border
Public accounting (firm) or in-house tax experience
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
Independent contractor engagement, fully remote. Mercor pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
Common Questions
Mercor has a reliability rating of very reliable based on the listings we track, with an onboarding time of 1-3 weeks (interview + assessment + trial). See our full Mercor review for the details behind that rating.
Applying takes you to Mercor's own website, where the application is completed. We are not a recruiter or employer and do not process applications directly - we may be recorded as the referring source.
$80-$120/h - Independent contractor engagement, fully remote. Mercor pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
Design realistic scenarios from your tax work - return preparation (1040 / 1120 / 1120-S / 1065), tax provision (ASC 740), responses to notices / IDRs and controversy support, tax planning and estimated payments Review and compare AI-generated tax outputs for technical accuracy and defensible positions Provide clear written feedback that improves how AI performs tax tasks
