Tax Specialist for Leadership Roles in Revenue
Job posted date: 13 May 2025
Job location: Ireland
Revenue is the Irish Tax and Customs administration and is a large, decentralised organisation with offices in over 30 locations nationwide.
Assistant Principal: Tax Specialist Nationwide
The Assistant Principal plays a key leadership role in Revenue, making a strong contribution to the delivery of Revenue’s strategic objectives.
Assistant Principals appointed from the competition will have responsibility for a wide range of functions, to include some or all of the following:
- Analysing tax policy issues and devising both operational and strategic responses to influence and implement tax policy
- Managing and undertaking risk-driven compliance interventions, audits and investigations, including examination of financial records, third party data sources, accounts and accounting systems
- Development of risk analysis strategies to mitigate against tax avoidance/evasion
- Interacting with customers, businesses, and professional advisors, including acting as a Revenue representative on various stakeholder groups
- Providing guidance to Revenue customers and promoting a strong tax and customs compliance culture within Revenue’s customer base
- Using the relevant Revenue powers to investigate and address compliance issues across the Revenue business and individual tax base
- identifying, investigating, and challenging unacceptable tax planning/tax mitigation schemes
- Enforcing tax and duty law and instigating prosecutions, when necessary
- Pursuing insolvency matters including liquidations, examinership cases, bankruptcy, and enforcement
- Carrying out forensic investigations and supporting Revenue Prosecution Services
- Undertaking transfer pricing (TP) audits and other risk-based TP interventions, including providing support on TP compliance issues across Revenue
- Researching and advising on best practice, methodologies, and emerging support tools and technologies to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of tax administration
- Developing and evaluating compliance strategies appropriate to Revenue’s segmented case base
- Managing and giving visible leadership to a team of tax specialists, supporting and giving direction to the building of capability and capacity so that team members deliver to a consistently high standard of performance
- Coaching and mentoring of staff to develop tax technical capability.
Applicants should note that Revenue is a responsive and agile organisation and, as such, they may be assigned to projects and other duties appropriate to the role of Assistant Principal.
These roles are nationwide with an attractive pay scale starting at €80,668 rising to €100,530. Further information on salary is outlined in the Candidate Information Booklet.
To apply, visit www.revenue.ie/careers.
Revenue is an equal opportunities employer.
