HMRC Tax Professional and Operational Delivery Higher Officer Caseworker

As memoryfish said, you can apply for an interest free loan to purchase an annual travel pass (or to buy a bike). They then take the monthly repayment directly from your salary.

You would get London Weighting Allowance if you work in London.

You get the standard bank holidays at Xmas, as you will be on modernised T&Cs. Some of your long serving colleagues will get an extra day, but that is because they are on unmodernised T&Cs. You do however get one extra 'privilege day' for the Queens Birthday. Most departments either add this to your leave or ask you to take it at some point in June.

This is correct, your driving license number includes your name. Make sure you enter it correctly or it will delay your DBS check, as they use this as one of the identifiers against PNC.

Hi, could you explain this driving licence number thing to me? The numbers in my licence number do not at all correlate with the numbers they're asking for. I have included the 1st 5 letters of my surname.

Too long & complicated for me to write, so have copied & pasted from GOV.UK;

English, Welsh and Scottish driving licence numbers contain information about the applicant’s name, sex and date of birth. This information is written in a special format but can be gleaned and matched against the information provided by the applicant in Section A.

Please note that the date of birth on English, Welsh and Scottish driving licences, issued before 1977, is not recorded as a separate entry on the licence. The date of birth can be deciphered from the driving licence number and checked against the date of birth field on the application form.

For example, the format of the number for Christine Josephine Robinson, born 2 July 1975

R O B I N 7 5 7 0 2 5 C J 9 9 9 0 1

N N N N N Y M M D D Y I I C C C C C

N= 1st five letters of the surname (if the surname begins MAC or MC it is treated as MC for all).
Y = YEAR of birth.
M= MONTH of birth (In the case of a female, the number represented by the first M will have the value 5 added to the first digit e.g. a female born in November (i.e. 11) would display ‘61’ in the MM boxes or if born in February (i.e. 02) would display ‘52’).
D= DAY of month of birth.
I = Initial letter of the first two forenames - if only one, then 9 will replace the second letter. If the licence indicates that the applicant has a middle name, ensure that one has been provided in Section A.
C= Computer generated.

For Northern Ireland; Isle of Man and Jersey driving licences the licence number is in a different format. The licence number is unique to the driver and the ‘name’ or ‘date of birth’ validation, as shown above, cannot be used.

Quite a lot of PNC info then! The employer will look at age, nature, relevance, pattern of offending, disposal and time since last offence.

Last offence was 2011. They are hardly really relevant to an HMRC role though. Surely they would be more interested, (or uninterested) should I say, in people who have been involved in fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, and the likes, no? :-) Either way, I have settled myself..will ring that DBS tomorrow and see what they say. I've already declared them previously, if I have to do it again, so be it. I was always told by my Grandmother that if something is meant for you, then it won't go past you. :-)

Last offence was 2011. They are hardly really relevant to an HMRC role though. Surely they would be more interested, (or uninterested) should I say, in people who have been involved in fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, and the likes, no? :-) Either way, I have settled myself..will ring that DBS tomorrow and see what they say. I've already declared them previously, if I have to do it again, so be it. I was always told by my Grandmother that if something is meant for you, then it won't go past you. :-)

Last offence was 2011. They are hardly really relevant to an HMRC role though. Surely they would be more interested, (or uninterested) should I say, in people who have been involved in fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, and the likes, no? :-) Either way, I have settled myself..will ring that DBS tomorrow and see what they say. I've already declared them previously, if I have to do it again, so be it. I was always told by my Grandmother that if something is meant for you, then it won't go past you. :-)

Does anyone know if you have to select yes for the criminal offence question for penalty points?

Didn't you say you've been done for assault twice? I'd say that is relevant...

I have a caution for being drunk and disorderly, and obstructing police from when I was like 17, and two convictions for assault, both of which were a considerable time ago also. Not a single point on my driving license though, would that help? Lol. :-P

Wether to disclose a conviction or not,depends on wether conviction is spent or unspent ,the security requirements of the Job and if the job exempt from the Rehabilitation of offenders act (exempt Jobs are jobs invloving work with children and vulnerable adults ,national securtiy)In my opinion if the job advert states the security requirements as BASIC SECURITY such as the current internal advert HO tax vacancies(O42R) Higher Officer Caseworkers (Tax Professional and Operational Delivery) Reference number1506841 X1000 VacanciesYou do need to declare any spent convictions,as per rehabilitation of offenders.your convictions are Spent if conviction is over 5 years old and you did not serve any prison time CS JOBS will undertake Starndard DBS checks, all convictions will show on the certificate (spent and unspent),but they are not able to disclose spent convictions to HMRC.They are only able to disclose unspent convictions to HMRC

Yes, I have been done with assault twice, both of which were a considerable time ago, and both of which I declared in black and white on the sheets we were requested to bring on the day of interview, which in my case was last November. I may be wrong, but I don't honestly think that particular sheet of mine hasn't been looked at by at least someone between now and then. I'm just being logical...if it was an issue, why would they have even wasted not only my time since then, but their own in keeping my details on their system, along with perhaps 1000s of others? It would have been flagged up almost straight away after interview scores were calculated, and a reserve list drawn up. Either way, I've stopped annoying myself about it. I will ring DBS tomorrow to ask them about it, and if I have to declare them, AGAIN, then I will. :-)

Wether to disclose a conviction or not,depends on wether conviction is spent or unspent ,the security requirements of the Job and if the job exempt from the Rehabilitation of offenders act (exempt Jobs are jobs invloving work with children and vulnerable adults ,national securtiy)In my opinion if the job advert states the security requirements as BASIC SECURITY such as the current internal advert HO tax vacancies(O42R) Higher Officer Caseworkers (Tax Professional and Operational Delivery) Reference number1506841 X1000 VacanciesYou do need to declare any spent convictions,as per rehabilitation of offenders.your convictions are Spent if conviction is over 5 years old and you did not serve any prison time CS JOBS will undertake Starndard DBS checks, all convictions will show on the certificate (spent and unspent),but they are not able to disclose spent convictions to HMRC.They are only able to disclose unspent convictions to HMRC

The dbs form hmrc asks you to fill doesn't state unspent conviction. It asks if you ever been cautioned convicted etc. I think they want you to declare everything. Unsure of hmrc policy though regarding convictions

Wether to disclose a conviction or not,depends on wether conviction is spent or unspent ,the security requirements of the Job and if the job exempt from the Rehabilitation of offenders act (exempt Jobs are jobs invloving work with children and vulnerable adults ,national securtiy)In my opinion if the job advert states the security requirements as BASIC SECURITY such as the current internal advert HO tax vacancies(O42R) Higher Officer Caseworkers (Tax Professional and Operational Delivery) Reference number1506841 X1000 VacanciesYou do need to declare any spent convictions,as per rehabilitation of offenders.your convictions are Spent if conviction is over 5 years old and you did not serve any prison time CS JOBS will undertake Starndard DBS checks, all convictions will show on the certificate (spent and unspent),but they are not able to disclose spent convictions to HMRC.They are only able to disclose unspent convictions to HMRC

You are completely wrong. All posts in HMRC are eligible for Standard Disclosures as per the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.

You are confusing this by referring to the security clearance, Baseline Personnel Security Standard (Basic), which is different to the Employment vetting they are doing here.

The advert mentions Basic to differentiate from SC, CTC and DV clearance. These are the security clearances that are done by Departmental Security Units and allow access to different levels of classified information. For these posts you won't have access to Secret or Top Secret information so only Basic security clearance is required; this is done ALONGSIDE the Standard Disclosure.

So please don't suggest that anyone should not declare their spent offences, as that is simply the wrong advice and could cost someone a job.

Well my last one was December 2011, with no custodial sentence...just a fine. :-)