Accounting/Business/Finance

Sr. Internal Revenue Agent, LMSB Division

IRS Large and Mid-Size Business Division Grade 13 Internal Revenue Agent
The Large and Mid-Size Business (LMSB) Revenue Agent is a professional accountant who examines and audits individual, business and corporate tax returns to determine correct federal tax liabilities and conduct examinations relating to compliance with technical requirements imposed by the Internal Revenue Code.

As an LMSB Internal Revenue Agent you will be responsible for administering the tax examinations of the largest corporations in America. You may work on teams or individually, coordinating examinations of multinational and national corporations, and other complex entities. You will be supported by a variety of specialists to assist in addressing numerous complex tax issues. There are Economists, International Examiners, Financial Products Specialist, and Engineers to assist you in determining the appropriate amount of tax. You frequently deal with corporations on the most complex issues. These often include tax shelters, mergers and acquisitions, global operations, transfer pricing and others. You will work closely with your customers, often dealing with the senior levels of corporate tax departments and/or their representatives. You will be challenged every day, both in your research, development of issues and in communications with taxpayers.

The Large and Mid-Size Business division has a number of important specialists within the tax examination programs, including:

Financial Products and Transactions Examiners (FPTE)
provide financial product/activity and tax implication expertise to the corporate tax program within LMSB, often dealing with the largest corporations in America. As an FPTE, you will work with other parts of the IRS to provide examination support. You will be responsible for examining, researching and assessing corporate tax returns in order to determine an appropriate amount of tax as it relates to financial transactions and activities. You will interact with corporate taxpayers, their representatives and other agents regarding many of the most complex financial activities and the resulting tax issues. These include domestic and international financial products, trading activities, global marketplaces, structured transactions and others.

International Examiners (IE)
provide international tax expertise to the corporate tax program within LMSB, often dealing with the largest corporations in America. They also work with other parts of the IRS to provide examination support. As an IE, you will be responsible for examining, researching and assessing corporate tax returns in order to determine the appropriate amount of tax as it relates to international transactions and activities. You will interact with corporate taxpayers, their representatives and other agents regarding any of the most complex tax issues. These include overseas operations, tax shelters, transfer pricing, foreign tax treaties and other issues.

Employment Tax Specialists (ETS)
conduct examinations of employment tax returns filed by large and complex business firms. The businesses generally have extensive operations and contain several operating subdivisions. The examinations require special ability in accounting and auditing, as well as a highly advanced knowledge of tax law and industry practices. Some of the ETS specialty areas include Income Tax Withholding, Federal Insurance Contribution Act, Federal Unemployment Tax Act and Railroad Retirement Tax Act. As an ETS, you will conduct both independent examinations and serve as the employment tax expert on an audit team in the examination of a controlled large case. You will interact with corporate taxpayers, their representatives and other agents regarding many of the most complex wage issues.

Computer Audit Specialists (CAS)
provide analyses of complex computerized accounting systems, determining and recommending the most effective method for providing audit data, providing computer analyses of large volumes of data, independently designing applications and continually searching for creative and innovative ways to use computer-assisted audit techniques. The CAS is also a recognized expert in the application of statistical sampling techniques.

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