All occupations › Business & financialCan AI Replace Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents in 2026? High exposure. AI could handle about 80% of today's tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents tasks by 2036, and there is a 63% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI is likely to take over many tasks outright.
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Timeline Year 2030 Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs
20% 2030 · 63% 2036
One person could cover, 2036
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0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 23% 2027: 25% 2028: 29% 2029: 35% 2030: 43% 2031: 52% 2032: 60% 2033: 68% 2034: 74% 2035: 78% 2036: 80% 43% Share of today's tasks AI can perform 40 80 120 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 99 2027: 98 2028: 97 2029: 94 2030: 91 2031: 87 2032: 84 2033: 81 2034: 78 2035: 77 2036: 76 91 Headcount index, 2025 = 100 (dashed line) Your survival map Not every part of your job is at the same risk. Tap a number to see what to do about each task.
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1 Direct service of legal documents, such as subpoenas, warrants, notices of assessment, and garnishments. 2 Notify taxpayers of any overpayment or underpayment, and either issue a refund or request further payment. 3 Contact taxpayers by mail or telephone to address discrepancies and to request supporting documentation. 4 Answer questions from taxpayers and assist them in completing tax forms. 5 Send notices to taxpayers when accounts are delinquent. 6 Enter tax return information into computers for processing. 7 Maintain records for each case, including contacts, telephone numbers, and actions taken. 8 Check tax forms to verify that names and taxpayer identification numbers are correct, that computations have been performed correctly, or that amounts match those on… Lower-risk jobs that use similar skills Your plan Ticks are saved in this browser only.
Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Send notices to taxpayers when accounts are delinquent". Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Notify taxpayers of any overpayment or underpayment, and either issue a refund or request further payment". Get visibly better at your human core: "Direct service of legal documents, such as subpoenas, warrants, notices of assessment, and garnishments". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Read about a lower-risk move: Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators. Lower-risk jobs with similar tasks Based on 25 O*NET tasks for "Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents" (SOC 13-2081.00). LLM alone: 19% of tasks; with AI tools: 97%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
