The Datum Report

Occupation 2423 · Professional occupations

Taxation experts

Half of full-time taxation experts in the UK earn more than £49,850 a year, and half earn less.

Taxation experts advise on tax matters and assess tax liabilities.

How people enter it

Entry is possible with GCSEs/S grades or a BTEC/ SQA award, although many entrants possess a degree or equivalent qualification. A professional qualification is required in either accountancy or taxation. Training is undertaken on-the-job and usually takes approximately four years to complete.

What the work involves

• examines accounts of industrial, commercial and other establishments to determine their tax liability and adjusts claims where necessary
• considers particular problems concerning all forms of personal and company taxation
• stays abreast of all changes in tax law and precedent
• discusses disputed cases with accountants and other specialists
• represents Government, client or employer in contested claims before tax officials or an independent tribunal

Also called

Investigator (HM Revenue and Customs) · Tax adviser · Tax consultant · Tax inspector · Tax manager · Taxation specialist

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for taxation experts, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 5 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

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Chartered and certified accountants · Finance and investment analysts and advisers