Job opening: Tax Examining Technician
Salary: $35 473 - 58 118 per year
Published at: Sep 13 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
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Duties
WHAT IS THE TAXPAYER SERVICESDIVISION?
A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions
Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas:
Taxpayer Services Return Integrity and Compliance Services (RICS)- Refundable Credits Examination Operations (RCEO)
The following are the duties of this position at the full working level.
Reviews and analyzes internal documents and/or taxpayer returns, prepares coded entries to amend and complete records, refers questionable returns and documents to appropriate areas to determine corrective action.
Processes individual or small business returns and cases that involve relationships among different accounts
that span more than a single tax period. Assign Employee Identification Numbers (EIN) and temporary
Social Security Numbers (SSN). Requests and interprets taxpayer information. Perfects documents and
initiates research to correct missing or inaccurate account information, inquiries to third parties, and changes
to taxpayer accounts to correct errors.
Compiles and maintains functional and/or assigned area records or reports to provide status of work.
May serve as a technical advisor, on-the-job (OJT) coach, classroom instructor, or reviewer to provide
technical assistance on systemic problems and inconsistencies in the Internal Revenue Manuals (IRM).
This position has career progression. If you are selected at a grade level lower than the full working level, you may be non-competitively promoted as your career progresses. For example, you may be hired as a GS-05, but if the position has career progression to GS-11, then you may move from a GS-05 to a GS-11 in as little as three years.
Qualifications
Federal experience is not required. The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-timework is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume.
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement:
GENERAL EXPERIENCE GS-04: You must have at least one (1) year or twelve (12 months) of general experience equal to the next lower grade (GS -03) in the Federal government or two (2) years of education above the high school level (education may have been obtained in an accredited junior college, college, university, business, secretarial or technical school. General experience - Progressively responsible clerical, office, or other work that indicates ability to acquire the competencies needed to perform the duties of the position to be filled. This may be paid or non-paid experience.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: GS-05: You must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-04) in the Federal government. Examples of qualifying experience include experience performing a variety of miscellaneous tasks involving researching and processing financial documents, reviewing information and determining corrective action on accounts, researching for missing/unclear accounting information and reviewing financial documents submitted for completeness.
OR
EDUCATION:
Completed four (4) years above high school in any field, in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university
OR
COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. Options for qualifying based on a combination will be identified in the online questions.
For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards.
Education
For positions with an education requirement, or if you are qualifying for this position by substituting education or training for experience, submit a copy of your transcripts or equivalent. An official transcript will be required if you are selected.
A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to
Department of Education Accreditation page.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. Click
here (Section 3, Explanation of Terms) or
here for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions.
Contacts
- Address TS - RICS-Return Integrity and Compliance Services
1111 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20224
US
- Name: IRS Kansas City External
- Email: [email protected]