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Tax Examiners & Collectors, & Revenue Agents

Also called: Revenue Agent, Tax Collector, Tax Compliance Officer, Tax Examiner

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What they do:
Determine tax liability or collect taxes from individuals or business firms according to prescribed laws and regulations.
On the job, you would:
  • Send notices to taxpayers when accounts are delinquent.
  • Confer with taxpayers or their representatives to discuss the issues, laws, and regulations involved in returns, and to resolve problems with returns.
  • Notify taxpayers of any overpayment or underpayment, and either issue a refund or request further payment.

Knowledge

Business
  • customer service
  • administrative services
Arts and Humanities
  • English language
Math and Science
  • arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Safety and Government
  • law and government

Skills

Basic Skills
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • reading work related information
Problem Solving
  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Abilities

Verbal
  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say
Ideas and Logic
  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
  • order or arrange things
Math
  • add, subtract, multiply, or divide
  • choose the right type of math to solve a problem

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.
They do well at jobs that need:
  • Integrity
  • Attention to Detail
  • Dependability
  • Self Control
  • Independence
  • Stress Tolerance

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Accounting software
  • Fund accounting software
  • Intuit QuickBooks Hot Technology
Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint Hot Technology In Demand
Electronic mail software
  • Email software
  • Microsoft Outlook Hot Technology In Demand

Education

Education: (rated 3 of 5)
bachelor's degree or
associate's degree
usually needed

Job Outlook

Below Average Outlook
New job opportunities are less likely in the future.
Salary
$56,780
$35,260
$102,840

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