Internal Revenue Agent

4 days ago


Beckley, West Virginia, United States Internal Revenue Service Full time
Job Summary

As a Revenue Agent with the Internal Revenue Service, you will play a critical role in ensuring compliance with tax laws and regulations. You will be responsible for conducting examinations of significant tax compliance issues, providing expert advice, and drafting or reviewing work projects involving emerging issues and areas of non-compliance.

Key Responsibilities
  • Serves as a technical expert in examinations of significant tax compliance issues and provides expert advice that may impact tax compliance strategy and the examination program as a whole.
  • Drafts or reviews work projects involving emerging issues and areas of non-compliance.
  • Serves as an issue expert in the examination of LB&I returns. Exercises significant authority and responsibility in planning, directing, and coordinating the examination of certain significant complex issues.
  • Serves as a lead for other revenue agents and specialists assigned to an examination and counsel attorneys. Leads the team in conferences with appeals, including issue resolution meetings such as fast track.
  • Functions as a resource in certain technical areas of expertise. Collaborates and coordinates with other experts, revenue agents, counsel attorneys, appeals officers, and/or specialists throughout IRS to leverage and expand expertise and ensure consistent application and interpretation of tax laws within those areas.
Requirements
  • One year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service.
  • Experience in progressively responsible and diversified professional accounting or auditing work that required applying professional accounting principles, theory, and practices to analyze and interpret accounting books, records, or systems specifically to determine their effect on Federal tax liabilities and their adequacy for recording transactions affecting tax liabilities.
  • Experience interpreting and applying Federal tax law for individuals, business and/or exempt organizations, partnerships and corporations.
  • Experience researching business and trade practices to develop tax issues based on analysis and evaluation of overall business operations and financial condition.
  • Experience interacting with a broad range of individuals and negotiating with specialists in accounting, legal, tax, and other similar business-related professions.
  • Experience using knowledge of the Internal Revenue Code, regulations, rulings, court decisions, and agency policies to conduct extensive research of legal questions to be able to make decisions involving complex matters of the law and to develop and apply new resolution approaches.
  • Experience analytical and evaluative techniques, both qualitative and quantitative, sufficient to gather, identify, evaluate, and develop work methods and approaches to resolve complex interrelated problems and issues.
  • Experience using communicative techniques in order to deal tactfully and persuasively with sophisticated taxpayers and stakeholders, to explain complex interpretation of tax laws, regulations and resolve issues.
  • Experience preparing technical reports and applying knowledge of tax law and regulations such as: Sections 162 (Business expenses), Section 167 (Depreciation), Section 170 (Charitable, etc., contributions and gifts), Section 195 (Start-up Costs or Organizational Expenditures), Section 197 (Amortization of goodwill and certain other intangibles), Section 274 (Disallowance of certain entertainment, etc., expenses), Section 263(a) (Capitalization expenses) to coordinate and provide technical assistance to field, industries, headquarter functions and team members.
Education

A bachelor's or higher degree in accounting or a related field, or a combination of education and experience equivalent to 4 years that included at least 30 semester hours in accounting or 24 semester hours in accounting and 6 semester hours in related subjects such as business law, economics, statistical/quantitative methods, computerized accounting or financial systems, financial management, or finance.

Additional Information
  • This is an open continuous announcement which will be used to fill vacancies in the locations listed as they become available for the next 12 months contingent upon funding and space requirements.
  • Applicants must apply and/or update their applications by 11:59 pm ET at the close of the following cutoff dates to be considered: Cutoff date(s): 4/10/2024; 7/10/2024; 8/28/2024; 12/27/2024.
  • Selections from this announcement may be made no later than (NLT) 3/27/2025.


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