**Grade 7 Tax Professional

• Accelerated Response Team**

HMRC Wealthy Directorate

Join one of HMRC’s most specialist and high-profile compliance functions, where complex tax risk, strategic investigation, and national collaboration come together. The Accelerated Response team works across some of the UK’s most challenging tax compliance cases involving high-net-worth individuals and their connected structures.

This is an opportunity to contribute at the forefront of complex casework, working alongside senior tax professionals, legal colleagues, and advisory partners to address significant tax risks with pace, precision, and impact.

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About the Team

Within HMRC’s Wealthy directorate, the Accelerated Response team handles some of the most sensitive and complex tax compliance matters in the UK. These cases often involve high-net-worth individuals, intricate wealth structures, and issues spanning multiple taxes, business areas, and legal considerations.

Operating as a national specialist team, Accelerated Response brings together experienced professionals with broad cross-tax expertise to lead tailored investigations and interventions. The work is high profile, often subject to intense scrutiny, and carried out within strong governance frameworks.

This is a role for someone who enjoys intellectually demanding work, can navigate commercially sensitive environments, and is motivated by solving difficult and novel tax challenges.

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The Opportunity

The Grade 7 Tax Professional will play a key role within the Accelerated Response team, supporting both the High-Risk Wealth Programme (HRWP) and the Wealthy Accelerated Resolution Programme (WARP).

In this position, you will:

• Lead WARP projects focused on resolving complex, high-value tax risks.

• Act as deputy lead on HRWP projects, helping to coordinate and progress difficult cases involving wealthy individuals and connected entities.

• Work within cross-functional teams, using your technical tax expertise to unblock issues, support strategic decisions, and accelerate delivery.

• Contribute to some of HMRC’s most challenging compliance outcomes, influencing direction and helping shape the approach taken on nationally significant cases.

This is a fast-paced, collaborative, and strategically important role with real scope to make a visible impact.

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What You’ll Be Doing

You will be expected to bring strong leadership, sound judgement, and the ability to adapt quickly to complex and changing customer circumstances. Key responsibilities include:

• Leading WARP projects to help drive complex issues through to resolution.

• Supporting the leadership of HRWP projects, including deputising where required to coordinate activity and resolve issues effectively.

• Identifying and researching emerging areas of tax risk to inform future compliance action.

• Engaging with internal stakeholders to strengthen ongoing work and ensure project teams are drawing on the right expertise.

• Providing technical and compliance insight to progress HRWP and WARP cases efficiently and effectively.

• Supporting new and evolving ways of working, including contributing to upstream activity as risks and projects develop.

• Building capability within project teams, sharing expertise, lessons learned, and best practice across the wider HMRC network.

• Developing your own knowledge and that of colleagues, particularly in response to unique, high-value, and novel case issues.

• Supporting programme leadership and senior management through timely reporting, updates on progress, and clear communication of risks or barriers.

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Who We’re Looking For

We are looking for a qualified tax professional with strong technical credibility and experience working on complex compliance or investigative matters.

You will be someone who is comfortable operating across multiple tax regimes, including offshore issues and anti-avoidance provisions, and who can apply sound judgement in complex or contentious situations. You should also be confident working independently, influencing stakeholders, and helping teams progress difficult work at pace.

This role would suit someone who wants to deepen their technical impact while also contributing to innovation, capability building, and high-quality delivery within a specialist national team.

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Essential Requirements

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• A professional qualification and relevant tax experience.

• Experience of influencing others through both written and verbal communication.

In addition, you must be able to demonstrate at least one of the following:

• Recent tax knowledge and experience in:

• domicile,

• residence, and

• offshore anti-avoidance provisions relating to income tax and capital gains tax.

or

• Recent experience of complex or cross-tax investigations, including work involving:

• multiple heads of tax, or

• interactions between different taxes.

or

• Experience of developing capability in a tax professional environment, including supporting the growth of your own knowledge and that of others.

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Qualifications

You must hold one of the following qualifications:

• CTA

• STEP, or another chartered body qualification with a UK Tax specialism

• For previous or current HMRC employees:

• TSP, or a predecessor qualification such as:

• TPDP

• IDP

• ITS2

• CPT FT2

Please note: existing HMRC employees will only be eligible where they have completed the appropriate course to qualify at Grade 7 level (or above) as a tax professional.

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What Makes This Role Distinctive

This is not a routine tax role. It offers the opportunity to work on matters that are:

• High profile

• Technically complex

• Commercially sensitive

• Nationally significant

• Strategically important to HMRC

You will be part of a high-performing specialist team, working on bespoke interventions where technical excellence, investigative judgement, and collaborative leadership are essential.

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Technical Assessment

During the selection process, you will be assessed on the following technical skill:

• Technical Question

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Why Consider This Role?

If you are looking for a role where you can apply deep tax expertise to some of the most challenging and important compliance work in HMRC, this is an exceptional opportunity.

You will have the chance to lead meaningful projects, influence complex case outcomes, collaborate with highly experienced professionals, and help shape the future capability of a nationally operating specialist team.