Revenue Examiner

Introduction

Are you a current Connecticut Labor employee with extensive experience in accounting or auditing, and looking to take on a new role or increase responsibilities? If so, consider the Revenue Examiner 2 position in Wethersfield, CT. The Department of Labor’s Employer Status Unit determines employer liability for unemployment insurance coverage, registers employers for Connecticut State Unemployment Taxes, and assists employers with compliance.

• Job Code: PCN 154392
• Type:
  Full‑time, Hybrid, 40 hours per week

• Professional growth and paid professional development opportunities
• Healthy work‑life balance for all employees
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility after 10 years of service

The State of Connecticut, Department of Labor is committed to protecting and promoting the interests of workers. We assist workers and employers to remain competitive and provide integrated services that meet the needs of our customers.

In the Departments of Labor and Revenue Services (Audit Division), this class independently performs a full range of tasks in conducting office and field examinations of financial records and accounts of businesses and individual taxpayers to ensure accuracy of tax liability.

• Prepare for taxpayer examinations by reviewing tax returns, prior audit reports, and other available data
• Meet with taxpayers to discuss audit procedures, answer questions, and obtain necessary information and records
• Examine and verify business and financial records
• Verify that exemptions and deductions taken by taxpayers are valid and proper
• Employ test procedures applicable to enterprises under audit
• Prepare papers supporting all adjustments to tax returns
• Compute assessments
• Review and discuss audit findings with taxpayers and/or representatives to illustrate how tax laws and rulings apply, and to support audit results
• Prepare statistical and narrative reports explaining and supporting audit results
• Answer taxpayer inquiries about tax return completion and record‑keeping requirements
• Participate in hearings of disputed cases
• Assign, control, and/or review work of field and office examiners as needed
• Perform related work as required
• Conduct complex taxpayer examinations to ensure accurate contributions to the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund
• Conduct complex taxpayer examinations for income, corporate, sales, use, and excise or public services taxes
• Identify taxpayers for audit purposes
• Provide a full range of taxpayer assistance for all state taxes
• Assist taxpayers in resolving disputed bills or collection notices
• Research and provide written responses to complex technical questions concerning state taxes
• Create and revise tax publications, forms, and training materials
• Train lower level permanent and temporary staff and review their work
• Represent the division on tax policy subcommittees
• When assigned to a field office, oversee operations of the taxpayer assistance function and staff
• When assigned to central office, coordinate, plan, and oversee educational and informational projects
• Speak about state taxes before practitioners and taxpayers

• Considerable knowledge of professional auditing methods, procedures, and practices
• Strong understanding of accounting procedures, practices, and systems for complex business corporations, partnerships, and proprietor ships
• Knowledge of tax accounting methods, appropriate tax statutes, and related regulations
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
• Ability to analyze complex accounts, tax reports, and financial statements, and to apply complex tax statutes
• Effectively deal with taxpayers, corporate officers, tax accountants, tax attorneys, and coworkers
• Proficiency with computer software

Seven (7) years of experience in accounting or auditing.

One (1) year of the general experience must have been at the junior working level involving the interpretation and application of tax law and fiscal principles. Junior working level is interpreted as…