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Senior Tax Specialist
HM Revenue and Customs
Job Reference: 420331
Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 1st September 2025
Do you have experience of IT/CGT, businesses taxes and assets taxes regulations, and compliance, plus would like to develop your Tax knowledge and work on tackling some of the UK's most challenging and complex tax issues?
Are you an experienced in advising personal tax and corporate clients on issues such as corporate restructurings, profit extraction methods, succession planning and structuring offshore investments with a passion for ensuring compliance? Join HMRC as a Grade 6 Senior Tax Specialist and play a pivotal role in safeguarding the integrity of the UK's tax system. In this challenging yet rewarding role, you will leverage your substantial knowledge of tax compliance to provide expert guidance and support to our team.
If so, we have the perfect role for you at HMRC!
Job Description:
We are looking for a Senior Tax Specialist with experience of working in UK cross tax compliance environment, (IT/CGT, businesses taxes and assets taxes) advising personal tax and corporate clients on issues such as corporate restructurings, profit extraction methods, succession planning and structuring offshore investments.
One of the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury’s key priorities for HMRC is to close the tax gap. The Government is investing in HMRC to deliver that priority. We are continuing to evolve and improve our ways of working together across HMRC to manage our tax risks more effectively and will be building on our successes and accelerating work to address some of our tax risks we believe need urgent attention.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced tax professional to use your commercial and technical knowledge to shape HMRC’s response to non-compliance by Wealthy individuals and the complex onshore and offshore structures they control to help close the tax gap.
As a Senior Tax Specialist, you will form part of the CCTO senior leadership team (SLT), with collective responsibility for developing the direction of the team in line with HMRC’s strategic objectives and contributing to the team’s performance objectives.
This is a high profile and exciting role which will require expertise, drive, and commitment to contribute to the Spring Statement 2025 objective to tackle wealthy offshore non-compliance and deliver an additional £500 million over the next 5 years.
Person Specification (Responsibilities):
Work collaboratively with the SLT to develop the overall strategy, approach, and direction for CCTO, including how we work internally, across teams, risks, and themes.
Use your commercial and technical knowledge to identify areas of UK tax risks within complex international structures controlled by Wealthy individuals and help design and implement a range of compliance solutions in response to those tax risks.
Work closely with strategy, risk and policy colleagues who are responsible for co-ordinating HMRC’s response to Wealthy non-compliance to help implement compliance solutions to tax risks.
Using your knowledge of wealth tax planning, develop a strategy to manage technical risks and issues with Wealthy and offshore compliance. Proactively consult with colleagues and stakeholders to understand the strategic impacts and range of options available in addressing those risks.
Act as a technical advisor (using your strong working knowledge of ITSA/CGT and business taxes. CCO is a multi-graded, multi-disciplinary case working team and you will provide technical support for the largest and/or most complex interventions.
Strengthen capability, performance and professionalism across the team and organisation. Create and embed an environment of continuous improvement, identifying gaps in technical knowledge and oversee development and delivery of products and interventions to mitigate those gaps.
You may be required to line manage a small team of tax professionals working complex offshore cases.
Some travel (including overnight stays) may be required as part of the role.
Demonstrable experience of providing UK cross-tax advice to high-net worth individuals and their businesses, involving structures in multiple jurisdictions with multiple entities.
Skilled in UK personal tax, corporate tax or asset taxes and have significant experience of managing complex HMRC enquiries.
Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and translate strategy into action.
Excellent communicator, both written and verbal, proficient and skilful at compiling briefings, presentations, and proposals with the ability to meet tight timelines with minimal direction.
Self-motivated and highly organised, with excellent negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills, able to build influence and trust across an organisation.
Experience of building the capability of yourself and others.
Qualifications:
You should hold at least one of the following qualifications:
Chartered Accountant (ICAEW, ICAS, CAI, ACCA) qualification
Holders of an Advanced Diploma in International Taxation (ADIT)
Successfully completed the HMRC Tax Specialist Programme, or one of its predecessors (TPDP, IDP, ITS2, CPT, FT2)
Be a UK qualified solicitor or barrister with post qualification experience in UK tax.
Location: Manchester (note other locations are available across the UK)
Salary and Benefits:
Below are further details on salary and benefits of the role:
Alongside your salary range of £68966 - £76,979 per annum (National) - (Higher starting pay above the band minimum may be awarded dependent on assessment of experience).
A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
An environment with flexible and hybrid working options.
We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.
Coaching and development tailored to your role.
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