Help Wanted at IRS
Maybe you can fix those forms
By Kaye A. Thomas
Posted April 4, 2008
Opening for tax law specialist in Washington, D.C.
When you look at the forms and instructions that come in a tax package it may be hard to imagine that they're created by real people. Normal people, who don't spend their spare time torturing kittens or pulling wings off flies.
I've met some of them, and believe it or not they try hard — really hard — to reduce the hassles involved in preparing and filing tax returns. The number one problem is wrestling with the tangle of laws Congress gives them to administer. How do you turn thousands of pages of legislation into forms we can complete easily and accurately?
If you think you can do better, there's a job opening for a tax law specialist in the Tax Forms and Publications Division of the IRS. It pays pretty well, too (a "13"). You'll have to be in the Washington D.C. area (or move there). For a person with the right qualifications this is an opportunity to be able to tell your friends you're the one who fixed that semicolon that was causing confusion on page 7 of the instructions for Schedule E. Anyway (I say this seriously) you would be working with some smart people who honestly try to make life easier for us taxpayers.
details: Tax Law Specialist Job Posting
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