Director Indirect Tax - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - HM Revenue and Customs

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4 weeks ago

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- £93,000
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  • SCS Pay Band 2
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • HMRC
  • CS&TD
  • Indirect Tax
    Type of role:
  • Policy
  • Senior leadership
  • Tax Profession
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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  • Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, NewcastleuponTyne, Nottingham, StratfordAbout the job

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The Indirect Tax Directorate in HMRC's Customer Strategy and Tax Design group is made up of tax and policy professionals with responsibility for indirect tax policy. Working with colleagues from HMRC, HM Treasury and across government the directorate leads on some of the most significant aspects of the UK tax system.
Thank you for your interest in this role. This is an exciting opportunity to join the senior leadership team in HMRC.

There could not be a more exciting time to be a senior leader in HMRC as we undergo huge transformational change which affects all our customers and all our people.


As Director for Indirect Tax you will be a key player in designing indirect tax policies that progress HMRC towards our Tax Administration Strategy.

You will be responsible for leading the wider organisation to secure revenue for essential public services, make it easy for customers to get it right, and promote public trust in the tax system.


Job description:


This is a Policy Director role in Customer Strategy & Tax Design. The Director is a member of the Customer Strategy & Tax Design Senior Leadership Team reporting to Jonathan Athow DG.

Indirect taxes raise around £190 billion for the Exchequer each year. This represents a substantial and growing proportion of overall tax revenue. Tax gap statistics show that there is more tax and duty that is due but not currently collected.

The purpose of the role is to design indirect tax policies that contribute to HMRC's strategic objectives, securing revenue for essential public services, making it easy for customers to get it right, and promoting public trust.

Key Responsibilities

  • Developing with HM Treasury indirect tax policies to achieve the government's fiscal and policy objectives.
  • Drive improvements to reduce the tax gap, by ensuring indirect taxes are secure from error, fraud and avoidance.
  • Chairing the Joint VAT Consultative Committee.
  • Designing policies that are informed by customer insight from the earliest stages, so that products and processes are easy and lowcost for customers and HMRC to operate.
  • Leading on assuring the administration and delivery of indirect taxes including collaborating and managing peers on large complex programmes for example as HMRC's Service Owner for VAT.
  • Using customer insight to design, develop and implement new taxes, such as the recently introduced the Plastic Packaging Tax and Carbon Emissions Tax.
  • Engaging proactively across HMRC to develop risk products and responses to improve taxpayer compliance and protect revenue.
  • Working with HMT, to identify and deliver reforms to the indirect tax regimes to deliver HMRC's strategic objectives.
  • Engaging across government and internationally, representing the UK and HMRC professionally, taking opportunities to influence.
  • Ensuring close alignment of policy work with customs policy teams on border issues.
  • Lead a team of over 300, including many tax experts, and continue their development and support them to deliver their objectives.
  • Build collaborative and productive working relationships with a broad range of senior HMRC colleagues, senior HMT officials and Ministers.

Person specification:


To be successful in this role, you will need to be an inspirational leader with extensive experience of collaborating to design and deliver policy effectively.
***Essential Criteria:
  • A strong track record of policy leadership, with the ability to work collaboratively to design effective policies in a large, complex, fast
  • paced environment
  • Evidence of excellent people leadership, with a proven ability to lead teams of technical experts, and adept at leading through ambiguity
  • Excellent senior stakeholder management skills, including at ministerial level or equivalent eg, CEO or other C-Suite level roles, with the ability to work through challenging issues while maintaining trust and delivering positive outcomes
  • Excellent communication skills at all levels, and in writing, ensuring that complex issues are set out in a simple and accessible way that is influential and authoritative

Desirable Criteria:

  • Experience or knowledge of indirect taxes including any professional qualifications
  • CTA, ACCA, ATT, HMRC TSP (or predecessor) or similar.

Benefits:

**As a Civil Service employee, you'll be entitled to a large range of benefi
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