About us
Government Tax profession is one of the largest Civil Service Professions with approximately 17,000 tax professionals working across government in the UK.
You are a聽tax professional聽if your job role requires the application of tax knowledge and/or you are building an聽understanding of tax, developed through professional learning or experience. This can be in one or multiple areas of tax聽(e.g., customs, VAT鈥�), and can be in different business areas, commonly compliance, policy development, litigation or聽operations.
The tax profession may be your primary profession; however, you may also belong to others. These commonly include,聽but are not restricted to, operational delivery profession, policy profession and legal profession.聽
The profession offers a varied and stimulating range of career pathways in roles spanning a range of government聽departments across the UK. The largest presence of tax professionals sits in HM Revenue & Customs where there are聽opportunities to specialise in, for example,聽 compliance, specialist tax help and advice, fraud, tax policy or as a manager.
Tax Specialist Programme聽is HMRC鈥檚聽tax professional flagship recruitment programme.聽The link provides more detail on聽what the programme involves and how to apply.
The Tax Centre of Excellence (CoE) is a central resource for departmental tax advice and services available to Government departments, comprising of teams from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), Home Office (HO), and Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), supported by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). You can read more about Tax CoE via the聽听蝉颈迟别.