Are you looking to join an encouraging and friendly team, working at the heart of HM Treasury's fiscal, economic and environmental objectives? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
About the Team
The Energy and Transport Tax team is responsible for a broad range of live policy areas that get significant amounts of ministerial attention. Our Environment and Resource Taxation branch works on the fiscal regime for North Sea oil and gas, a tax on plastic packaging, landfill tax and aggregates levy. This branch also coordinates the department’s approach to using tax levers to deliver the government’s net zero objectives.
About the Role
This is a fascinating time to be leading policy work on the taxation of this sector as the government sets its longer-term vision for the role of oil and gas in the UK’s energy mix.
In recent years the branch has delivered several high-profile measures that have attracted significant political and external attention following the surge in commodity prices that took place after the COVID pandemic. Continuing to implement, monitor and advise Ministers on the impact of these changes are key areas of work moving forward.
Joining us as a Policy Adviser, you'll have core policy responsibilities in relation to the oil and gas fiscal regime, and will be answering queries from the public or MPs, preparing Ministerial or written briefings and delivering a range of different policy projects. You'll also n...