Wealthy International Tax Specialist (Personal Tax)

Job summary

Discover what it’s like to work in a compliance role that makes an impact. Could you help us shape a stronger, fairer future? Your next career move starts here.

HMRC is the UK’s tax, payments and customs authority. We have a vital purpose, and we collect the money that pays for public services and help families and individuals with targeted financial support.

HMRC’s Wealthy compliance teams (“Wealthy”) are responsible for the tax compliance of the UK’s wealthiest individuals including ultra-high net worth individuals. Wealthy individuals often have complex tax affairs that present significant challenges to an effective tax administration. Given the size and nature of the tax at risk within the wealthy population it increases the opportunities and risks of non-compliance.

For our most complex customers we adopt the co-operative compliance approach where there is a more intensive and enduring relationship with the individual and their agents.

These roles sit within a specialist team leading HMRC’s compliance response to personal complex international taxation issues, ensuring the effective application of UK tax law to internationally mobile individuals and offshore structures, including the transition to and operation of the post‑6 April 2025 residence‑based tax system.

Job description

You will join a specialist compliance strategy team with lead responsibility for HMRC’s approach to compliance risks arising from the post-6 April 2025 residence-based tax system, alongside wider complex international personal tax issues involving residence and offshore structures.

The abolition of domicile and the remittance basis, and the introduction of new reliefs and provisions such as the Foreign Income and Gains (“FIG”) regime and the Temporary Repatriation Facility (“TRF”), represent a major change to how personal tax operates in practice. A central focus of these roles is understanding how individuals and their advisors respond to this new framework, how those responses alter the compliance and risk landscape, and how HMRC should adapt its compliance strategy accordingly.

The successful candidates will work as part of a wider team contributing to the development of HMRC’s compliance strategy, leading on defined aspects of the compliance portfolio, while collectively supporting broader strategic activity and shaping how HMRC identifies, prioritises and responds to risk.

This is a highly specialist area and the tax affairs of this customer base are inherently complex, involving structures and transactions that cut across multiple jurisdictions. You will need to have a proven understanding across the main areas of Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax, with a good understanding of the former non-domicile regime, new residence-based tax system and offshore anti-avoidance provisions.

As part of our drive to increase compliance activity in the upstream space, you will be expected to use your knowledge and experience to engage with agents and representative bodies – including via webinars and external forums – to increase education and understanding in this area and prevent non-compliance from occurring in the first place.

Collaboration with colleagues both within and outside Wealthy is key to ensuring we close the Wealthy tax gap. You will need to be comfortable working at pace with technical specialists, policy owners and legal professionals. The team has built successful working partnerships with colleagues across Customer Compliance Group including Risk & Intelligence Service and Fraud Investigation Service. You will have a key role to play in maintaining and developing these partnerships.

This role does not include any direct line management.

Candidate Information Session

We will be holding a Candidate Information Sessions as a group webinar where you can hear directly from the team about a day in the life of the role, the wider team & HMRC. We will also be discussing the application process and next steps. Additionally, there will be time on these sessions for you to ask questions directly to the team.

We are holding information sessions about this role on: Friday 04/09/26 @ 10:00am

To register, follow this link to forms: Wealthy International Tax Specialist (Personal Taxation)

Person specification

You will be expected to:

• Contribute, as part of a team, to the development and delivery of HMRC’s compliance strategy for the post‑6 April 2025 residence‑based tax system, including risks arising from the abolition of domicile and the remittance basis, the introduction of the FIG regime.
• Identify and assess how taxpayer and advisor behaviour in response to the new system may create new compliance risks or change existing risk profiles and reflect this understanding in compliance strategy design.
• Contribute to wider compliance strategy activity covering complex international personal tax risks, including those involving offshore structures and complex or high‑risk issues of UK tax residence.
• Lead educational activities to support customers into the post 6-April 2025 system and the transitional provisions, including the Temporary Repatriation Facility.
• Translate knowledge of legislation and customer behaviour into practical compliance approaches, helping define risk populations and design appropriate treatments, collaborating effectively with key partners (e.g. Risk & Intelligence Service) and taking account of likely customer and advisor responses.
• Provide high‑quality advice, briefing and challenge to senior leaders, including setting out compliance risks, strategic options and recommended approaches, and supporting informed decision‑making in areas of technical and behavioural complexity.
• Work closely with Policy, Technical and Legal colleagues to resolve technical questions, provide key Compliance insights to inform further Policy development and ensure compliance strategies are aligned with legislative intent and legally robust.
• Act as a technical and compliance subject‑matter expert within Wealthy, contributing to advice and assurance on complex or high‑risk international personal tax issues, including those involving offshore structures and residence‑based risks.
• Monitor emerging risks and evolving taxpayer behaviours, using evidence and insight to support the ongoing refinement of compliance strategy over time.

Essential Criteria

The successful applicant will need to demonstrate relevant experience and effective delivery of the following Essential Criteria as well as their qualifications.

Please see below further details of what Qualifications have to be held.

• Experience, in a compliance or advisory capacity, of high net worth former non-domiciled and deemed domiciled individuals in respect of their personal tax.
• Good understanding of how tax considerations interact with wider wealth planning arrangements and customer behaviour, including the use of offshore structures and internationally mobile arrangements.
• Strong technical knowledge of the former non-domiciled regime, the protections afforded to deemed domiciled individuals, the new residence-based system and the offshore anti-avoidance provisions (Settlements, Transfer of Assets Abroad, Capital Gains Tax provisions for non-resident trusts).

Further Location Information

Please ensure that you only apply for a location that you are willing and able to work from, as we will only make one offer of employment. Any additional notes included in a ‘Further Location Preferences (optional)’ field within the application form, will not be considered. Please be aware that you cannot change your location preference after submitting your application.

Office Closures

If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it’s important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.

For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations (opens in a new window)

These sites are:

• Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle
• Trinity Bridge House, Salford - moving to an alternative office in Manchester/ Salford
• Lynx House, Portsmouth – moving to an alternative office in Portsmouth

You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.

Leeds Location

Moves Adjustment Payment will be available for this role, provided the successful applicant is a current HMRC colleague in Bradford and meets the eligibility requirements outlined in the HMRC’s Moves Adjustment Payment guidance.

Qualifications

You must be a qualified tax professional holding one of the following qualifications:

• Chartered Tax Adviser (CIOT)
• Advanced Diploma in International Taxation (CIOT)
• AIIT (including Paper 4*)
• A Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) membership qualification including:
• Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales (ICAEW),  
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland (ICAS) 
• Institute of Chartered Accountants Ireland (ICAI) 
• Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) 
• Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
• Post Graduate full legal qualification - in taxation matters.
• For previous or existing HMRC employees TSP or predecessor qualification (TPDP, IDP, ITS2, CPT FT2)*

*In October 2023, a decision was made that applicants for G7 Tax Professional roles must have successfully completed the Tax Specialist Programme or hold an equivalent qualification. To enable career development for experienced colleagues already in Tax Professional roles, if you have been successful in gaining a G7 Tax Professional role through open competition prior to October 2023, and you are not subject to any Performance Management action, you are now able to apply on level transfer for other G7 Tax Professional roles. Please note that if you applied for a non-tax professional role on promotion to Grade 7 prior to October 2023 but have tax experience, you would not be able to apply on level for tax professional roles.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £58,541, HM Revenue and Customs contributes

£16,959 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.

We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.

• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development.

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Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

How to Apply

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following: