The Staff Selection Commission is conducts Combined Graduate Level Exam every year for various posts which are currently among the most in-demand jobs in India.

Tax Assistants work under the supervision of a Tax Manager or supervisor, but many of their duties are performed with little or no supervision.

The number of jobs in the bookkeeping, accounting and audit clerk category is expected to decline 8 percent through 2024, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, due to the popularity of online tax services.

Tax Assistants provide support to an organization's tax or accounting department. Their role is a combination of administrative assistance and accounting support.

They must be able to run an office, as well as perform higher level functions, such as processing tax returns and maintaining databases.

Pay Band:
Salary of Tax Assistant(TA) in CBEC is in the pay band 5,200-20,200 with grade pay of Rs. 2,400.

Tax Assistant in CBEC can have three types of postings namely
Excise
Service Tax
Customs

Promotions - Sr TA, ITI, ITO (Group-B gazetted); Assistant commissioner and so on.


Their next promotion is to the post of Senior TA for which 3 years of service is a qualification; means he cant be promoted to that post before 3 years of his tenure in the post of TA.

Besides a departmental exam (in the name of Departmental exam for Ministerial Staff) too is a must to pass for promotion.

Office timings
Office timings are 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM. It may differ slightly zone to zone.