What jobs are there in international organisations?

Jobs for calculating income tax and national insurance for government organisations?

• Are there any jobs in government organisations such as the Inland Revenue where you would only calculate income tax liabilities and national insurance liabilities for people and ...show more

• Answer:

  HMRC (formerly Inland Revenue) doesn't employ people to calculate PAYE and NIC for employers. People come into the enquiry centres for help with this, but over the years, they have increasingly encouraged/made to do this on-line, and staff are not supposed to do this for them. The emphasis is in educating them to do it themselves. When I started work 45 years ago, we would do the PAYE for employers coming to the counter, but when you think about it, how can they make the right deductions from employees when calculations are made perhaps every three or six months? If they want someone to do it for them they have to go to an accountant/agent, HMRC is no longer staffed to do this. In any case this sort of work would be a lower grade level than for someone with a degree. Although vacancies are filled nowadays on a "competence basis", this level of work would have been done in my day by someone with 5 GCE "O" levels. If you are doing a degree, you could look at graduate entry to be an Inspector of Taxes. You would have a year's training with HMRC, take exams, and then be qualified to conduct enquiries into peoples tax affairs. But you would have to cover the whole gamut of tax affairs, including business accounts, examination of Tax Returns, etc. You could ask for a transfer into a tax office dealing with PAYE (these are now specialist offices), but even so, you would still be involved in compliance work for Schedule D, some people have both types of income. There may be work in Employers' Compliance, where you deal with employers who refuse to comply with legislation. By necessity, the work is confrontational, and you would also have to deal with charging penalties. There is no Revenue job where you will only be dealing with PAYE/NIC calculations. A lot of calculating can be done on computer by staff anyway.