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...organisations while attending to the highly interrelated sensitive issues affecting stakeholders – internal and external, public and private, taxpayers and claimants. Subseque...
...reducing outside contractors. Ministers are discussing priority areas for 2011 onwards so that these can be protected. We need to ensure we spend taxpayers’ money efficientl...
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... Contact us Melanie Dawes, Director General, Business Tax, HM Revenue and Customs Mela...part in consultations with external organisations such as the Low Income Tax Reform Group and the Royal Na...
...usehold finances. The TUO Birth Service benefits new mothers by helping them to get access to services and faster payment of benefits such as Child Tax Credit. About 50,000 people...
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Maude: efficiency and growth must “march hand in hand”
...st innovative and competitive suppliers from doing business with us and for us."Maude said that "a Government that hunts for the best deals for the taxpayer is good for business" be...
...g the programme, the Department has created an initiative that we expect to deliver a better service to customers, with a reduction in costs to the taxpayer, achieving better for le...
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...ent relations minister Ed Davey made a case for introducing local income tax and said that “unless w...” Leaving aside longer-term calls for reforms to local funding or taxation arrangements, delegates...
Why is it easier to start a youth gang than a youth club?
...in any way the vital roles of government, as the legitimate authority to sanction or refuse actions in the public good, and as the channel for our tax to go back into the places th...
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NAO rejects Grayling attack on DWP report
...old ways. I’m really disappointed that the NAO is producing a report which is partially based on guesswork, when it’s private companies and not taxpayers who are carrying the ri...
McCluggage discusses progress on government ICT strategy
...he development of Directgov, Businesslink and the Government Gateway – a set of secure shared services supporting online transactions such as tax returns.Government has spent...
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...ublic, and the workforce for service redesign.There is a risk that simple cuts in line with budget reductions will destroy morale, productivity and taxpayer value-for-money; a diffe...
Editorial: If it’s not working, do something else
...y to see their take-home pay fall by a fifth. Add to this the squeeze on tax credits and the predicted ris...moving: support green businesses rather than help smelters avoid carbon taxes; lend money to consumers an...
Interviews
...of examples of new or rarely-used funding models, such as toll roads and Tax Increment Financing – local authority borrowing secured against the rise in tax revenue stimulated by investm...
...ented as clearly as it should be: “Accountants and managers are failing if no-one can understand what they’re talking about. Whether it’s the taxpayer or board members, if we...
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...aged projects receive more publicity than good ones, successful projects will be recognised and praised inside government. After all, by saving the taxpayer £910m, the ODA has rele...
...ator, £15bn a year is lost through tax fraud alone, with a further ...warns: “Fraud isn’t just in the tax and benefit system. Other dep...ilos in areas like health, welfare, tax and local government. Because..., which assesses each new claim for tax credits by cross-referencing...
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...nge of business processes that can be put online. He gave the example of tax self-assessment forms, which...allow a wholesale redesign of the system. There’s no reason to build a tax process with one national dea...
...ision-makers to understand “whether a certain tax is producing enough yield for...whether resources should be shifted to another tax to improve value for money....the information we have together on things like taxation, benefits and health, so...
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...e departments, improved value for money for the taxpayer, and a better reputation...ep is welcome and will bring in savings for the taxpayer. The giant leap, however...d closed – 11 MoUs, producing savings for the taxpayer of around £250m.The ren...
The coalition special advisers
...wing an internship, she took an events-management job at free-market EU business group the Stockholm Network, then in 2008 moved to lobby group the Taxpayers’ Alliance as politica...
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...hat has ensured equality thinking is done as a matter of course in policy making and service delivery. Melanie Dawes, Director General, Business Tax, HM Revenue and Customs Emma...
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Osborne sets up Office of Tax Simplification
Osborne said of the new body: “Two years ago I promised to create the Office of Tax Simplification. Today, we’re delivering on that promise. With its independent, expert advice it will be a permanent force for a simpler tax system.” The office has two interim board members: Michael...
Tags: tax, small business tax, budget (uk)
HMRC collection habits criticisedHM Revenue & Customs should do more to reduce the amount of outstanding tax owedHM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) should do more to reduce the amount of outstanding tax owed, according to the parliamentary spending watchdog. The call comes in a report from the C...
Tags: edward leigh, financial management and analysis, tax, HM Revenue and Customs
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Comment on "HRH Prince Charles was a surprise visitor today at Civil Service Live!"
...doing it by our local Equality and Diversity Team and I'm happy I was. After the initial fright, I find the experience rewarding (and not too taxing). I feel much better...