Tax Examining Technician Temp Prom/Detail NTE 1 year, MBE up to not more than 4 years, MBMP
What you'd do
WHAT IS LARGE BUISNESS AND INTERNATIONAL SERVICES? A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions Position(s) are to be filled in following area(s): LBI - Director Pass Thru Entities -Deputy Director, any team in Territory 3 TEFRA and any team in Territory 5 BBA REVIEW THE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BELOW FOR FURTHER DETAILS
Major duties
The following are the duties of this position at the full working level. If this vacancy includes more than one grade and you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and receive training to help you grow in this position. Resolves difficult, complex issues and problems for examination cases including regular examination, special interests, and special handling cases which may involve restricted interest issues. In such cases, law under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code restricts underpayments and overpayments. Processes special handling audits or more complex special handling cases. Determines if cases require priority handling and if any of the wide variety of other factors exist which impact on the processing of the case. Compares audit agreement with returns, amended returns, examination reports, transcripts of taxpayer's accounts, and verifies tax (deficiencies/overassessments). Obtains missing information. Retracts adjustments to previous tax, penalty, and interest assessments, and varying rate computations Examines cases for expiration of statutes. Verifies office or service center statutes dates for correctness. STANDARD POSITION DESCRIPTIONS (SPD): PD22353 Visit the IRS SPD Library to access the position descriptions.
What you need to qualify
Federal experience is not required. Experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or through Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-timework is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GS-08: To be eligible for this position at this grade level, you must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service.Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience working tax returns, tax reporting schedules, and related records to correct taxpayer accounts by calculating full-year and partial-year tax liabilities and computing penalties and interest using applicable interest rates. Experience preparing a variety of adjustments and supporting documents including payment transfers, credit transfers, manual refunds, and quick assessments, to resolve taxpayers accounts and/or plan, input and monitor for unpostables conditions. Experience applying Privacy Act and disclosure procedures when releasing taxpayer's account information. AND You must also meet the following requirement(s): TIME AFTER COMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT (TACA): Current civilian employees must have completed at least 90 days of federal civilian service since their latest non-temporary appointment from a competitive referral certificate, known as time after competitive appointment. For this requirement, a competitive appointment is one where you applied to and were appointed from an announcement open to "All US Citizens". TIME IN GRADE (TIG): For positions above the GS-05, applicants must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements to be considered eligible. One year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the grade you are applying for. For positions at the GS-5, you cannot advance to the GS-05 if you have held a GS-02 in the past 52 weeks. There is no TIG restriction for GS-02, 03, or 04 positions. For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards.
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