Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents
Determine tax liability or collect taxes from individuals or business firms according to prescribed laws and regulations.
56,610 people do this job in the US. $62,370 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
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- 9%
- 1%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 2%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 51%. Today's estimate: 62%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 21 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Determine appropriate methods of debt settlement, such as offers of compromise, wage garnishment, or seizure and sale of property.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 14% | 2.1 h50 min to 4.2 h | 72%Half by now | |
| Examine and analyze tax assets and liabilities to determine resolution of delinquent tax problems.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 14% | 2.1 h50 min to 5 h | 65%Half by now | |
| Collect taxes from individuals or businesses according to prescribed laws and regulations.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 10% | 50 min13 min to 3.3 h | 69%Half by now | |
| Investigate claims of inability to pay taxes by researching court information for the status of liens, mortgages, or financial statements, or by locating assets through third parties.Done daily by most who do it. | 10% | 2.5 h50 min to 1 work day | 40%Half by Dec 2026 | |
| Examine accounting systems and records to determine whether accounting methods used were appropriate and in compliance with statutory provisions.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 8% | 6.7 h1.7 h to 3.1 work days | 7%Half by Nov 2027 | |
| Impose payment deadlines on delinquent taxpayers and monitor payments to ensure that deadlines are met.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 5% | 33 min13 min to 1.3 h | 99%Half by now | |
| Review selected tax returns to determine the nature and extent of audits to be performed on them.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 5% | 1.3 h25 min to 2.5 h | 87%Half by now | |
| Confer with taxpayers or their representatives to discuss the issues, laws, and regulations involved in returns, and to resolve problems with returns.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 5% | 50 min25 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Review filed tax returns to determine whether claimed tax credits and deductions are allowed by law.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 4% | 1.7 h25 min to 3.3 h | 65%Half by now | |
| Direct service of legal documents, such as subpoenas, warrants, notices of assessment, and garnishments.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 4% | 50 min25 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Maintain records for each case, including contacts, telephone numbers, and actions taken.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 3% | 17 min8 min to 29 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Check tax forms to verify that names and taxpayer identification numbers are correct, that computations have been performed correctly, or that amounts match those on supporting documentation.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 3% | 25 min8 min to 1.3 h | 97%Half by now |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
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- Bill and Account Collectors63% now, 64% by 2028
- Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks75% now, 86% by 2028
- Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks76% now, 88% by 2028
- Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs72% now, 74% by 2028
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
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