The Chief Counsel (Tax) Attorney will report to the Managing Counsel for Regulatory, Environment and Land and will work primarily in the area of corporate tax.  The Chief Counsel will be responsible for providing legal advice and representation to clients in various aspects of corporate tax matters, including the impact of and relationship to taxes on customer rates.  The Chief Counsel (Tax) will be expected to have substantive experience in tax matters such as normalization, depreciation, method changes, entity formation, transactional structuring.  The Chief Counsel (Tax) will be expected to provide guidance and assist in developing strategies supporting tax project teams in audit, regulatory and appellate proceedings before agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), U.S. Tax Court, the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB), the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).