Career Details

Supplemental

• Confer with taxpayers or their representatives to discuss the issues, laws, and regulations involved in returns, and to resolve problems with returns.
• Conduct independent field audits and investigations of income tax returns to verify information or to amend tax liabilities.
• Review filed tax returns to determine whether claimed tax credits and deductions are allowed by law.
• Review selected tax returns to determine the nature and extent of audits to be performed on them.
• Enter tax return information into computers for processing.
• Examine accounting systems and records to determine whether accounting methods used were appropriate and in compliance with statutory provisions.
• Process individual and corporate income tax returns, and sales and excise tax returns.
• Examine and analyze tax assets and liabilities to determine resolution of delinquent tax problems.
• Recommend criminal prosecutions or civil penalties.
• Determine appropriate methods of debt settlement, such as offers of compromise, wage garnishment, or seizure and sale of property.
• Secure a taxpayer's agreement to discharge a tax assessment or submit contested determinations to other administrative or judicial conferees for appeals hearings.
• Prepare briefs and assist in searching and seizing records to prepare charges and documentation for court cases.
• Direct service of legal documents, such as subpoenas, warrants, notices of assessment, and garnishments.
• Request that the state or federal revenue service prepare a return on a taxpayer's behalf in cases where taxes have not been filed.
• Investigate claims of inability to pay taxes by researching court information for the status of liens, mortgages, or financial statements, or by locating assets through third parties.
• Install systems of recording costs or other financial and budgetary data or provide advice on such systems, based on examination of current financial records.
• Participate in informal appeals hearings on contested cases from other agents.