Tax Appeals Reviewer pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 07540
- Class code
- 07540
- Pay scale group
- ST 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A1
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Tax Appeals Reviewer is $53,008 to $80,646 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 07540.
- This is the range the plan authorises, not the salary of any individual employee.
Class specification
The Commonwealth job specification for this class is published by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration. The passages below are quoted from it as published, not paraphrased, and cut to their opening sentences; the full specification is the authority on duties and qualifications. It was last revised 11/30/2017.
What the state says the job is
This is specialized work in the analysis and adjudication of tax appeal cases in the Department of Revenue. An employee in this job adjudicates routine tax appeals with clearly defined issues for which rules, regulations, policy guidelines, and precedent decisions are readily available and where no hearing is required. Work involves reviewing petitions from taxpayers appealing tax assessments, filing status, penalties, or other related issues to determine the timeliness of filing and, if necessary, requesting the petitioner to submit additional information substantiating the claim being made in the appeal; entering appeals into the appeals processing system; determining if appeals need to be forwarded to a Tax Appeals Hearing Officer for further review; preparing tax appeal decisions on routine tax appeal issues including untimely appeals, bad check assessments, penalty cases, amended re ...
Examples of the work
• Adjudicates routine issues involving any of the taxes or corollary programs administered by the Department including Sales and Use Tax, Personal Income Tax, Employer Withholding Tax, Inheritance Tax, Motor and Alternative Fuel Taxes, Realty Transfer Taxes, Cigarette Tax, Malt Beverage Taxes, Corporation Taxes, and the Property Tax/Rent Rebate program. • Reviews applicable Board decisions, judicial precedents, Board of Finance and Revenue rulings, and tax laws and regulations. • Communicates with taxpayers, either by telephone or in writing, to obtain additional information or to explain the applicability of tax laws to specific appeals.
Minimum qualifications
• Two years of experience in preparing or reviewing tax returns to determine tax liability; or • An associate’s degree in accounting; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training.
Quoted from the Commonwealth job specification, read 2026-10-21.
Where this comes from
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration publishes this figure in Classification and Pay Plan (online, current annual salary ranges). Every number on this page is read from that document; nothing is estimated, modelled or averaged.
The Commonwealth also links this class code to its own job title and specification. That page is the official description of the classification; this page publishes its pay range.
The listed pay scale is available in the Commonwealth's current ST schedule.