HMRC Tax Specialist Programme (TSP) 2018

Massive congrats to everyone who was successful! What a brilliant achievement Was just wondering if anyone knew if a Band O job was an AO or EO or if it something completely different? Apologies if this has already been asked before I couldn’t find it!

There's no contractual progression. The only pay increase you'll get is the annual pay award, if there is one, which has been around 1% the last few years. Before that it was nothing for a few years so no increases at all. The pay award is normally announced in June and backdated to April.

Thanks for the info Mallet Wow, that's not good. Call me stupid but what's the point in listing jobs with min and max salary when you never progress up the scale to the salary maximum.

You can progress up it. Just very slowly. Not helped by the public sector pay freeze/cap. We've either had zero or 1% since 2010. That's austerity for you. There's talk of the cap being lifted this year, but we'll probably be last. The public actually like nurses, police, firefighters and teachers so they'll probably get it first. You'll never see a public protest demanding higher wages for tax inspectors 😂

There has been talk of introducing spot pay rather than a range. I think they've already done it for AA/AO grades. For all the other grades they've been trying to narrow the ranges, presumably to make a transition to spot pay easier.

Thank goodness for that! Provisional offer received! Fingers crossed I get Leeds

Anyone else successful from 6th/7th March Lincoln?

Thank goodness for that! Provisional offer received! Fingers crossed I get Leeds

Anyone else successful from 6th/7th March Lincoln?

I was in yellow group if anyone successful in that - I know someone was 😀 - I got reserve

Congrats to every one that was successful and commiserations to those that did not make it this time. Anybody here from 21/22 February Warwick who was successful.... I was in yellow group.

I was in the yellow group those dates

Hiya!! I was... thank you!! How did you get on?? Xxx

Thanks Xolo, what I meant was a pay progression within your grade. For me moving from Band O pay to HO pay will be called a promotion I work in NICS and, subject to satisfactory performance in previous reporting year, you progress up the pay scale for your grade. So for example the EO2 payscale in NICS is currently between approx. 24k to 26k with 5 payscales within. So basically you move up every year and in approx. 6 years should be sitting at the max (26k) for your grade. Just wanted to know how this works in HMRC as seen some their employees commenting that they been sitting on their minimum payscale for 7 years or more.

I'm Leeds as only location (I had Newcastle too but have emailed and asked if I could only be considered for Leeds) will they honour that at this point or am I too late?

Congrats to everyone that was successful, anyone from the yellow group in Warwick on 14/15 Feb?