Assistant Commissioner – Domestic Tax Department

Job Title:      Assistant Commissioner Audit – Domestic Tax Department

Report to:    Commissioner – Domestic Tax Department

Location:     Domestic Tax Department Headquarters, 19 Wellington Street, Freetown

Minimum Qualification:

  • Masters Degree in the relevant field including Taxation, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or
  • Professional Qualification such as ACCA, CIMA, CPA etc.

Supervises: Managers of the audit units in the Large and Medium Taxpayers offices

Experience: At least five years of audit experience in taxation, accounting and finance or related fields in a tax or financial institution in a minimum capacity as manager

Key Tasks Include:

  1. Conduct all field audits in the Large and Medium Taxpayers’ Offices.
  2. Prepares audit reports on initial and additional assessments in field audits of the Large and Medium Taxpayers Offices.
  3. Prepares audit plan and audit programmes to execute specific field and desk audits in order to ascertain the tax liability of all categories of taxpayers within an approved tax audit plan of the department.
  4. Undertake entrance and exit meetings in the commencement and finalisation of each audit undertaken within the annual audit plan for the year prepared by the Design and Monitoring Unit of the Domestic Tax Department.
  5. Recommend changes in the Income Tax Act, GST Act and other Domestic Tax Laws to support legislative changes to improve on tax compliance and minimise excessive tax planning schemes of taxpayers.
  6. Provide key inputs in the assessments and other compliance functions of the Domestic Tax Department in order to support the Assistant Commissioners of both Large and Medium Taxpayers’ Offices in raising tax assessments and in the finalisation of taxpayers’ liabilities for each year of assessments.

Any other duties as may be assigned by the Commissioner, Domestic Tax Department or the Commissioner-General, National Revenue Authority.

Nationality

Candidates must be a Sierra Leonean

Remuneration and Benefits; Attractive

Closing Date-17th August, 2018.

 

Please send your application, attaching CV and copies of all relevant certificates to:

The Chairman, Board of Directors

National Revenue Authority

7 Bathurst Street

Freetown.

 

OR Email

jobs@nra.gov.sl