Revenue Administration, Tax, and Customs Advisors - Personal Services Contractorview on SAM.gov

REVENUE ADMINISTRATION, TAX, and CUSTOMS ADVISORS GLOBAL ASSIGNMENTS SCOPE OF POSITION: The U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) is recruiting experienced professionals for its Revenue Administration program (“revenue” includes the money collected from tax and customs compliance) on a competitive basis for intermittent assignments under personal services contracts. This announcement is for global technical assistance assignments. We are recruiting for assignments in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South and Central America. We thus have specific interest in specialists willing to accept assignments worldwide. Current country assignments include North Macedonia, Ukraine, Moldova, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Namibia, Kenya, Madagascar, Cabo Verde, and Sri Lanka. Short-term assignments normally consist of a series of trips of two to three weeks each. In addition to intermittent assignments, there may be a limited number of resident assignments, which place advisors in a host country for one year or more. Applicants must be willing to accept often arduous international travel . QUALIFICATIONS: Treasury is seeking candidates who possess expertise in one or more areas of revenue administration, both tax and customs administration. Required qualifications : For tax administration experts, a minimum of ten years' experience, to include one or more of the following complex and specialty areas: tax audit (including computer assisted audit, audits of large and multinational companies, issues involving international tax, transfer pricing, financial products, financial instruments such as cryptocurrencies, and other specialized sector audit experience), dispute resolution, compliance risk management, returns and payment processing, collection/debt management, taxpayer service and education, and tax fraud. For customs administration experts, a minimum of ten years' experience, to include one or more of the following complex and specialty areas: US Customs and Border Protection procedures and regulatory framework and associated documentary requirements, compliance expertise (including experience implementing internal controls or risk assessments), customs valuation, harmonized tariff classification system, trade agreements, rules of origin, excise tax, post clearance audit, border operations, and border control. Additional complex and specialty areas applicable to both tax and customs administration experts, requiring a minimum of ten years' experience: Expertise in human capital management, including organizational design, performance management, and training and development is also sought. Criminal investigation, internal audit / inspections and anticorruption program development skills are needed. Preferred qualifications for either tax or customs administration experts: Increasingly automation and Artificial Intelligence applications are being used to handle routine tax and customs administrative issues and applicants should have an…