Inland Revenue Jobs

The Inland Revenue employs over 88,000 people in over 290 locations within a number of different departments including:

• Collecting Income, Corporation and Environmental taxes
• Distributing Tax Credits
• Collecting all  VAT and Customs Duty
• Monitoring the UK’s borders and ports for illegal trade
• Administering National Insurance and Student Loans
• Enforcing  the Minimum Wage

HM Revenue and Customs is the biggest business in the UK with a revenue of £457 billion, and one of the only businesses guaranteed to make a profit!

Pay and Benefits

Jobs at the Inland Revenue are given a grade and each of these will have a different salary scale, a table of which can be seen below. Location is another factor that determines pay, with employees living in London earning more because of the higher cost of living:

Grade	National Minimum*	National Maximum*	London Minimum*	London Maximum*
Administrative Assistant	13,641	15,571	17,534	19,767
Assistant Officer	16,349	19,281	20,702	23,655
Officer	21,386	25,967	24,501	30,031
Higher Officer	27,015	32,299	30,237	36,738
Senior Officer	33,938	39,250	36,705	42,432
Training grade (graduate development programme)	26,130	39,550	28,267	42,764
Grade7	45,399	54,199	50,888	60,980
Grade 6	55,626	66,658	61,317	73,474

If you work for the Inland Revenue let us know what it is like in the comments below.