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Technicians and associate professionals · code 3352

Government tax and excise officials

Government tax and excise officials examine tax returns, bills of sale and other documents to determine the type and amount of taxes, duties and other types of fees to be paid by individuals or businesses, referring exceptional or important cases to accountants, senior government officials or managers. Tasks include - (a) advising organizations, enterprises and the public on government laws, rules and regulations concerning the determination and payment of taxes, duties and other government fees, and on the public’s rights and obligations; (b) examining tax returns, bills of sale and other relevant documents to determine types and amounts of taxes, duties and other types of fees to be paid; (c) investigating filed tax returns and accounting records, systems and internal controls of organizations to ensure compliance with taxation laws and regulations; (d) performing related administrative tasks to document findings, maintain records and report on actions taken for cases. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Excise officer - Taxation inspector - Tax officer Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Accountant - 2411 - Auditor - 2411

A good share of the tasks are affected. It ranks 376 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • tax inspector
  • tax compliance officer

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

50.7
Holds up
against AI Exposed: Gradient 2

AI could take on 49.3 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 49.3 = 50.7

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

18.1
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

15
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 30.3 · hand skill 14.3 · cramped spaces 0.5 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 18.1 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 66.3, while the average is 49.3. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 66.3

    Performing related administrative tasks to document findings, maintain records and report on actions taken for cases.

    Medium
  2. 50

    Examining tax returns, bills of sale and other relevant documents to determine type and amount of taxes, duties and other types of fees to be paid

    Medium
  3. 44

    Investigating filed tax returns and accounting records, systems and internal controls of organizations to ensure compliance with taxation laws and regulations

    Low
  4. 37

    Advising organizations, enterprises and the public on government laws, rules and regulations concerning the determination and payment of taxes, duties and other government fees, and on the public’s rights and obligations

    Low

4 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

One Australian job matches this one closely, so this is about as reliable as it gets here.

AI helps you
68
AI does it for you
39

Helping wins by 29 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 5995

Compared with similar jobs

There are 82 jobs in the “Technicians and associate professionals” group, averaging 65.6. This one is below that.