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Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents
Determine tax liability or collect taxes from individuals or business firms according to prescribed laws and regulations.
- Sector: Business & Finance
- Preparation: Zone 3 — medium preparation needed
- O*NET code: 13-2081.00
What you'll actually do
The activities O*NET rates highest for this occupation, most important first. Numbers are out of 100.
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Communicating with People Outside the Organization
central to the job — rated 97/100 for importance.
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Working with Computers
central to the job — rated 94/100 for importance.
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Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
central to the job — rated 94/100 for importance.
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Getting Information
central to the job — rated 89/100 for importance.
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Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
central to the job — rated 87/100 for importance.
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Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
a major part of the work — rated 84/100 for importance.
Determine tax liability or collect taxes from individuals or business firms according to prescribed laws and regulations.
What it takes
Two numbers per line: the level the work expects, and how important it is to doing the job well. Both are O*NET ratings, already on a 0–100 scale.
Skills
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Reading Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Active Listening
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Speaking
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Critical Thinking
Needed at a solid working level (54/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
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Active Learning
Needed at a solid working level (54/100), and rated 56/100 for importance.
Knowledge
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Customer and Personal Service
Needed at expert level (78/100), and rated 83/100 for importance.
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English Language
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 77/100 for importance.
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Mathematics
Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
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Administrative
Needed at a high level (73/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
Abilities
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Oral Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Oral Expression
Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Written Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Deductive Reasoning
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
How people get in
O*NET places this occupation in Zone 3 — medium preparation needed. That is a statement about what employers typically require, not a rule about you.
Education
Vocational training, an associate degree, or equivalent on-the-job experience.
Experience
One to two years of related experience is typical.
Training
Employers expect you to arrive with the core skill already.
What it pays
These are typical finance compensation bands by employer tier — sector-level figures, not a measured salary for Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents specifically. Treat them as the shape of the market, then check a real posting for the number.
Goldman · JP Morgan · KKR
$150k – $400k+
Regional Banks & Funds
$85k – $130k
Credit Unions & Local Firms
$55k – $85k
How the work tends to run
Each line below is read off a single O*NET activity rating for this occupation — named, so you can disagree with it.
- Most of the day happens at a screen.From “Working with Computers”
- You are in front of the public, so the job is partly performance.From “Performing for or Working Directly with the Public”
- Rules and standards are checkable and someone checks them.From “Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards”
How FlightWay scores your fit against this
No black box. Here is the whole method, factor by factor.
- 1. You answer a short quiz
- Your answers build a profile across the same 161 O*NET dimensions this page is describing — skills, knowledge, abilities and work activities. Same axes, so the comparison is like-for-like.
- 2. We correlate the two profiles
- Fit is a mean-centered cosine — a correlation between the SHAPE of your profile and the shape of Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents. Centering matters: raw similarity between any two occupations sits at 0.70–0.85 because all work shares a common profile, so without it every career would look like a match.
- 3. The number you see is personality fit only
- "Would I want this work" and "am I ready for this work" are different questions, and averaging them answers neither. So readiness — what your résumé, coursework and projects prove — is scored separately and shown next to fit, never blended into it.
- 4. Every factor is visible
- You can open any match and see which dimensions pushed it up and which pulled it down. If you disagree with the number, you can see exactly where it came from.
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See your fit for Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents
Ten questions, about 90 seconds. You get your match against Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents and 782+ other real careers — with the reasoning shown.
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