Joseph
Revenue Officer, Small Business and Self Employed Division

I’m currently a Revenue Officer within the Small Business, Self-Employed
Division of the Internal Revenue Service.

The requirements for a Revenue Officer position is a 4 year degree, with
no specific major.

The day that a Revenue Officer has changes from one day to the next.
You’re out there meeting taxpayers at their residences, at their places
of business. You’re conducting interviews on taxpayers, you’re investigating
their assets, you’re out there interviewing third parties looking for assets
that possibly the taxpayer didn’t disclose to you.

The Internal Revenue Service is a wonderful place to work. It’s got great
benefits as far as leave.

Before I was a Revenue Officer I was an auditor for a state government
agency, I worked in an office, I had minimal contact with people outside
the office and I was very bored at the job – within two years of that job I
was looking for something more exciting, something that I could feel fulfilled
in doing. So I saw the announcement for the Revenue Officer position and I
applied for it.

The Revenue Officer job can be equated to being an Investigator, because
you’re out there investigating people’s assets.

As a Revenue officer, when you come on to the Internal Revenue Service,
your training itself lasts a year, however, that is not all classroom training,
it’s on the job training.

I am representing the government.  I am out there trying to relay to the
taxpayers that aren’t abiding by the laws that they have a responsibility
as well – they have a responsibility to pay their taxes and file their returns.