Senior Tax Examiner

Location: Augusta,Maine,United States

Maine Revenue Services 

Income Tax Division 

Senior Tax Examiner 

Opening Date: March 14, 2025

Closing Date:  March 28, 2025

Job Class Code: 0510
Grade: 23
Salary: $60,896.85 – $85,870.15*/Annually (*Includes 17.25% recruitment and retention stipend) 
Position Number: 016304015

JOB DESCRIPTION:

This position engages in supervisory work in the review and assessment of individual income tax and employer withholding, by applying laws and regulations pertaining to the assessment and collection of taxes administered by the Income/Estate Tax Division. 

Senior Tax Examiners are working supervisors responsible for training and supervising Tax Examiner personnel, providing assistance to taxpayers, and addressing the most challenging and complex tax problems. Work is performed under limited supervision.

TYPICAL DUTIES:

• Plans, organizes, assigns, and oversees unit work to ensure an orderly and efficient work flow.
• Provides explanations of state tax laws, rules, and regulations to attorneys, Certified Public Accountants, and taxpayers for their use in determining tax liabilities and filing requirements.
• Answers telephone, writes letters, and gives opinions of a complex nature to the public, professionals, and legislators to provide requested information.
• Develops and coordinates unit operations and training to ensure established goals and objectives are met effectively and efficiently.
• Researches, reports, and recommends changes in unit procedures and practices to enhance operational efficiency.
• Receives, reviews, and updates non-payment files and non-filing contracts; and interviews taxpayer, obtains payment, or arranges payment plan to collect outstanding taxes and ensure filing of all returns.
• Reviews and discusses problem taxpayer accounts with Assistant Attorney General; submits written reports of interviews, observations, and evidence; and appears as a witness for the State to gather and provide information necessary for civil or criminal court cases.
• Reviews and evaluates complex reports of corporations, partnerships, and individuals to determine proper taxpayer compliance and correct State tax liability.
• Implements and complies with human resource laws, policies, procedures and practices such as: AA/EEO, recruitment, employment, position classification, performance appraisals, training, discipline, contract administration, human resource components of security protocols of agency information security and confidentiality policies, and employee safety.

KNOWLEDGES, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:  

• Knowledge of state and federal tax laws, rules, and regulations.
• Knowledge of the various forms used in tax preparation.
• Knowledge of collections techniques and procedures.
• Knowledge of confidentiality requirements of tax-related information.
• Knowledge of accounting procedures and systems.
• Knowledge of Bureau policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of the judicial process as it relates to tax compliance.
• Ability to supervise subordinate personnel.
• Ability to detect violation of tax laws.
• Ability to establish payment plans for collecting taxes.
• Ability to oversee the work of other technical and/or clerical employees.
•  Ability to communicate effectively.
•  Ability to write clearly and effectively.
•  Ability to interpret and apply tax laws, rules, and regulations to varying situations.
•  Ability to detect errors in tax returns.
•  Ability to analyze information, reach logical conclusions, and make sound decisions.
•  Ability to use applicable computer programs.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

A Bachelors Degree from an accredited educational institution and eighteen (18) months of professional work experience in accounting, auditing, finance, or tax preparation/examination.  Equivalent experience may be substituted for education on a year-for-year basis.

Benefits of working for the State of Maine:

No matter where