Job Description

[What the role is]

As a tax professional, you have tax knowledge at your fingertips and the heart to build a socially responsible taxpaying community. At IRAS, we offer you the space to apply your knowledge as we redefine experiences for taxpayers. You will apply your resourcefulness, strong communication skills and expertise in administering a suite of tax services ranging from service, compliance to policy formulation.

The result? Your mark of insight on tax compliance which are transformational.

[What you will be working on]

- Plan and execute audit of taxpayers\xe2\x80\x99 returns under IRAS\xe2\x80\x99 compliance programmes to ensure accuracy of corporate tax assessments

- Apply knowledge of principles of accounting and tax legislation to identify incorrect tax treatment of incomes, expenses and allowances;

- Communicate with taxpayers and tax agents to gather information and discuss tax issues, including through meetings and site visits

- Conduct targeted education programmes for selected industry groups to enhance voluntary compliance

- Keep abreast of tax risk areas in respective industry group and ensure that these are managed in an effective and efficient manner

- Review existing policies and administrative rules to ensure that they remain relevant

- Design, build and test IT systems to digitalise and automate the tax audit and assessment process

[What we are looking for]

- Background in Accountancy, Business Administration or Economics with at least 5 years of experience handling corporate tax work

- Practical experience in tax assessment functions e.g. Income Tax or Corporate Tax and accounting

- Good knowledge of corporate income tax laws and practices

- Knowledge of principles of accounting, tax and company law

- Knowledge of the audit process, audit methodologies, consequences of the different types of audit determinations etc

- Preferably have basic GST knowledge

- Strong ability to question and probe

- Meticulous and analytical

- Good verbal, written communication skills and negotiation skills

- Resourceful and able to work independently in a team environment

- Organised and systematic in handling information and data

Singapore Economic Development Board