Fun if you like Auditing - Revenue Agent IRS Employee Review

5.0
27 May 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Great Benefits.Good Pay. Starting PTO is 4 hours for the first 3 years with a cap of 240 hours. Sick leave (also paid) has no cap and accumulates the same amount as PTO. You will never, if not rarely, have overtime since it’s frowned upon.

Cons

If you graduated in accounting and like to type reports and audit, you will like this job. If your looking for something more calculating/data entry, this isn’t for you. Work programs are archaic. For your audits, you use Report Generating Software (RGS), which creates word documents for your reports. It is buggy and supposedly they’re trying to update the system. You will also be summarizing what you did and the amount of time you put in each individual audit case you touched, everyday in a specific word document for each audit case. You will also have to record your hours on spreadsheet which lists all your active cases and submit them weekly to your secretary. Finally, you do your actual timesheet that gets sent to payroll. IDRS is where you get most of your taxpayer information and it is a legacy software; black screen with green font. Probably not going to be changed anytime soon.

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Cons

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Pros

-Got me started in my career as an auditor -thorough tax law training -many senior auditors helping you learn the profession

Cons

-communication from management is not always transparent -when you are at the bottom of the ladder, you get verbal abuse from not only POA and taxpayers (understandable, given this is the IRS), but also management/OJI's. They want to look good to their bosses and will throw you under the bus if they have to in order to save themselves. Even if they gave you instructions that got you in trouble. They SHOULD be supporting you in your function as an auditor, but they'll do whatever is easiest for themselves ultimately. -on job training can be disorganized -bureaucratic culture -like many other companies, a lot of things you're expected to learn by yourself. Such as how to avoid POA delays.

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