Job summary
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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).