Tax Specialist

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**Join HMRC as a Tax Specialist: Make a Real Difference**

Are you a tax professional seeking a healthier work-life balance without sacrificing the impact you can make in the tax world? HMRC, the UK's tax, payments, and customs authority, is looking for skilled Tax Specialists to join our Compliance Group.

**Who are we?**

Our role is vital, to bring in the money to pay for the country’s public services and give financial support to people. Our vision is simple, to be a trusted, modern tax and customs department. An organisation that makes it easy for our customers to get tax right, and hard for anyone to bend or break the rules.

We’re hosting three virtual Awareness Sessions regarding these vacancies where you’ll be able to hear from colleagues in each team discuss their team, what a typical day looks like and what you can bring to HMRC.

Thursday 14th March at 12:00pm.

Tuesday 19th March at 13:00pm.

Tuesday 26th March at 12:00pm.

**Job description**

HMRC's Compliance Group plays a crucial role. Comprising 27,000 dedicated members, we are one of the largest areas within HMRC. Our primary goal is to simplify tax payments for both individuals and organisations, while diligently addressing and preventing fraud and evasion. 

We are looking for people to join the following streams: 

**Fraud Investigation Service (FIS)**: Lead investigations into the most serious tax frauds and tax crime, utilising your expertise to tackle complex cases and ensuring tax compliance and integrity, in line with HMRC’s Codes of Practice 8 and 9.

**Large Business (LB)**: Engage with the UK's largest businesses, managing tax risks and ensuring compliance through expert analysis and impactful negotiation. Be at the forefront of significant tax decisions influencing the nation's economy. 

**Wealthy & Mid-sized Business (WMBC)**: Focus on wealthy individuals, Mid-sized businesses as well as public bodies and employment status and intermediaries, providing insight into the wealthy population, their tax affairs, and the businesses they own or influence. We have a key part to play in promoting and supporting the growth that Mid-sized businesses bring to the UK economy.  

**N.B. Fraud Investigation Service**

Applicants who are successful in achieving an offer to join our Fraud Investigation Service will be required to undergo a more in-depth Security Check. This check will proceed following our standard vetting process and is currently taking between 6 and 8 weeks to complete.

For more insight into our work across the 3 streams above, please follow the link below: 

HMRC - Tax Specialists, Civil Service Careers (civil-service-careers.gov.uk)

**What We Offer**
- Work-Life Balance: Enjoy flexible working options that truly accommodate your lifestyle.
- Career Growth: Benefit from tailored training programs and clear progression paths. 
- Meaningful Impact: Play a pivotal role in funding vital public services and shaping tax policies. 

**Person specification**

**Who we are looking for**

You will have opportunities to interact with external customers and representatives, collaborate with cross-functional case teams, and contribute to building the professional tax community through mentoring, training, and knowledge sharing. We offer varied responsibilities consisting of resolving tax disputes, leading teams, shaping future tax policies, and interacting with senior business figures.

We have multiple positions available across Corporation Tax, VAT, Inheritance Tax, Employer Duties, Income Tax and Self-Assessment. We also want to talk to you if you are passionate about tackling non-compliance and undertaking investigatory roles.

**Essential Criteria**
- Leader - Demonstrable record of effectively leading teams in a tax compliance environment providing strategic direction to ensure successful outcomes.
- Communicator - extensive experience in managing multi-channel stakeholders (e.g. Legal, Policy & Technical) in a diverse, complex, or large organisation.
- Compliance - Proven track record in ensuring/assuring customer compliance with tax legislation, regulations and governance, taking early appropriate action where non-compliance is identified.

**Qualifications**You need to be a qualified Tax Professional, holding one or more of the following qualifications:
Chartered Tax Adviser - CIOT.

AIIT (including Paper 4*).

A Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) membership qualification including:
Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales (ICAEW)
Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland (ICAS)

Institute of Chartered Accountants Ireland (ICAI)

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)

Post Graduate full legal qualification - in t