Tax Compliance Agent Intern

The mission of the Colorado Department of Revenue (CDOR) is to become a trusted partner to every Coloradan, helping them navigate the complexities of government so they can thrive. Our core values of service, teamwork, accountability, integrity, and respect drive us.

The Department’s vision is to empower businesses and individuals through quality customer service, innovation, and collaboration. We celebrate diversity and support an equitable and inclusive culture. We embrace our differences because we believe this brings innovation to our work. For more exciting information about the Department of Revenue, please enjoy this brief video!

As part of the State of Colorado, DOR offers a competitive benefits package to permanent employees:

• PERA retirement benefits including PERA Defined Benefit Plan, PERA Defined Contribution Plan, plus 401K and 457 plans
• Medical , Dental , and Vision insurance coverage
• Automatic Short-Term and Optional Long-Term Disability Coverage
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) job protection and State of Colorado Paid Family Medical Leave (PFML)
• 11 Paid Holidays Annually and Accrued Annual and Sick Leave
• Variety of discounts on services and products available through the State of Colorado's Work-Life Employment Discount Program

We're hiring a public service oriented individual with excellent de-escalation skills to be our Tax Compliance Agent Intern
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In this role, you'll be organizing your workload in the morning and heading out the rest of the day to conduct tax compliance checks on businesses. Although you won't be auditing, you will use your interpersonal skills and knowledge to collect owed taxes and inform businesses of their delinquent account. If tax delinquencies are not voluntarily resolved, you will achieve compliance by serving distraint warrants, seizing inventories, and securing business property which may be sold at public auction to satisfy liabilities.

Your ability to remain organized and manage your workload will ensure goals are met. This is a close knit, supportive and small team who make sure you have what you need! If you're ready to serve Colorado, then this job may be for you!

• How to identify and locate non-compliant taxpayers and businesses.
• What documentation is needed to provide to the taxpayer for types of non-compliance and delinquency.
• Steps, processes and methods required to bring a taxpayer back into compliance.
• Collecting, processing money and documents pertaining to the taxpayers account to bring them into compliance
• What proper method to file judgments/liens.
• Identify and secure assets for seizure to resolve accounts and achieve compliance.
• Additional duties:
  Special Event tax compliance

This is a field position requiring the incumbent to spend approximately 60% of each day traveling to and meeting with businesses and individuals. The incumbent is provided with a state vehicle, laptop computer, cell phone and additional resources to perform their duties. A typical day begins with two hours of home-based account research and preparation, followed by six hours of field work.

This position would be primarily focused on business taxpayers in Colorado Springs and surrounding areas in El Paso county.

The incumbent must be able to work independently without daily person-to-person supervision, have the ability to learn the law, be honest, and operate with integrity. The incumbent must be able to remain professional and respectful even during stressful or confrontational situations. The incumbent is directly responsible for enforcing tax compliance with a wide variety of business types.

This is a trainee position with opportunities to be…