Is working experience in the tax authority valuable in the private sector for tax accounting?

Answer 1

Any practical work experience in that field or something related is valuable. Why? Because you have some working knowledge of the industry and how things work.

And if you have experience in the same job as say an IRS Auditor, then you could pretty easily transfer that to the private sector, say Corporate Auditor. Auditing is auditing, and the only difference is where you've done it and who've you audited. Yet the principles are the same.