Accounting Technician Internship-Summer

STATEWIDE

This is an internship position for all in-state locations including but not limited to:
Nashville, Cookeville, Shelbyville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Johnson City, Memphis, and Jackson.

This position is designed as 80% work-from-home.

Department of Revenue – Audit Division – Accounting Technician 1

Salary:
Paid.

The Tennessee Department of Revenue is responsible for the administration of state tax laws and motor vehicle titling and registration laws. The Department collects approximately 87% of state revenue, enforces the revenue laws fairly and impartially to encourage voluntary tax compliance, and apportions collections to the various state funds and local units of government.

Under general supervision, the intern is responsible for learning to perform paraprofessional tax auditing assistance work. The intern learns to provide assistance and information to tax auditors in the examination of business records to ensure compliance with accounting and auditing principles and with state tax laws, rules, and regulations.

• Assists tax auditors or agents in auditing, analyzing, or investigating the financial records of businesses and individuals.
• Utilizes various resources and tools to research and compile taxpayer history for tax audits or investigations.
• Compiles and maintains taxpayer data.
• Conducts research and may assist in the computation of certain tax assessments.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee’s Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State’s policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that individual’s race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran’s status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.