Working Culture in IRAS

Originally Posted by Unregistered

depending on if you are chio or ugly, big difference on starting pay.

This is nonsense.. please don't listen to the poster. The starting pay is standard, with slight variation due to NS or without, honors or not etc. Definitely nothing to do with looks.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

What are the post IRAS job prospects like?
Esp the local uni acc grads who went into IRAS straight after graduation

Got your CA, and after a few years of work with IRAS, do u all go to big 4 or enter into a tax department of an MNC?

There are very limited options to leave IRAS especially if the work is very tax specific as the nature of the work is very different from private sector. Rarely people go big 4 due to the lost of work-life balance and most private sector have a certain stigma on civil servants, it is quite difficult to find decent options. It's more common to do secondment to other ministries or stat boards.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

There are very limited options to leave IRAS especially if the work is very tax specific as the nature of the work is very different from private sector. Rarely people go big 4 due to the lost of work-life balance and most private sector have a certain stigma on civil servants, it is quite difficult to find decent options. It's more common to do secondment to other ministries or stat boards.

Have a friend working as an accountant in a stat board
Exiting from big 4 assurance
He’s eventually aiming for MOF

Is that usually the dream?