Home > Archive > Archive Campus & Careers > My Experiences and Advice

My Experiences and Advice

Description: Write here only if you have personal experience of working as a tax inspector. Why did you decide to become one? What ... more

My Experiences and Advice ... are your qualifications? What are the ups and downs of the profession?

Newest Review: ... about the social standing of some of its newer employees. The fact that I had a couple of A levels (although I was never able to get even a basic qualification in Maths!) and could get past an interview panel was what counted. I began my career as a Tax Officer (Higher Grade) - now known as a Revenue Executive. People become specialists quite early in the Revenue and it's frequently ... more

... accidental. On my first morning a desk had to be found for me and it happened to be in the Schedule E section - that's the section that deals with employees. Had the desk been in the Schedule D section (that's the one that deals with the self-em...more

Read Reviews for My Experiences and Advice

My Experiences and Advice: H M Inspector of Taxis (1673 words)
by SueMagee - written on 11/05/02 (Very useful, 125 readings)
Rating:

Well, it's a year ago today since I joined dooyoo and anniversaries always make me think about the past. I was thinking about my early days in the Inland Revenue for some reason and one of the things I remembered was walking with my small daughter thirty years ago and meeting the local Superior Young Gentleman. With the assurance of childhood Helen announced that "Mummy is an Inspector of Taxes". The Superior Young Gentleman smiled and said, in that sing-song voice that some people use with young children "Do you know what taxes are?" "Yes" said Helen "they're big black cars." Well, what brought me to this ...

Read review

Read 1 review

Write a review