Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: European Scrutiny CommitteePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215055217
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Thirty-fourth Report of Session 2012-13
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: European Scrutiny CommitteePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215055217
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
34th Report of Session 2012-13
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: Secondary Legislation Scrutiny CommitteePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780108550744
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Also includes information paragraphs on 8 instruments
HC 219-xxxiii - Thirty-fourth Report of Session 2014-15
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. European Scrutiny CommitteePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 0215083784
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Forty-fourth Report of Session 2013-14 - HC 83-xxix
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: European Scrutiny CommitteePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 0215070755
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Thirty-fourth report of session 2010-12
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: European Scrutiny CommitteePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215560391
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Thirty-fourth report of Session 2010-12 : Documents considered by the Committee on 22 June 2011, including the following recommendations for debate, financial assistance to Member States: Portugal; preparation of the 2012 EU Budget; economic governance: t
Tax Avoidance
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public AccountsPublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215056986
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Among those ranged against HMRC are the big four accountancy firms, Deloitte, Ernst and Young, KPMG, and PwC, which earn £2 billion each year from their tax work in the UK. They employ nearly 9,000 people just to provide tax advice aimed at minimizing the tax paid. Between them they boast 250 transfer pricing specialists whereas HMRC has only 65 people working in this area. The firms declare that their focus is now on acceptable tax planning and not aggressive tax avoidance however they continue to sell complex tax avoidance schemes with as little as 50 per cent chance of succeeding if challenged in court. The large accountancy firms are in a powerful position in the tax world and have an unhealthily cosy relationship with government. They second staff to the Treasury to advise on formulating tax legislation. When those staff return to their firms, they have the very inside knowledge and insight to be able to identify loopholes in the new legislation and advise their clients on how to take advantage of them. This is a clear conflict of interest which should be banned in a code of conduct for tax advisers. The UK must also take the lead in demanding urgent reform of international tax law, so that companies have to pay a fair share of tax where they actually do business and make profits. Furthermore, the job of simplifying our tax code needs to be taken seriously; yet the Office of Tax Simplification has just 6 people working in it
HC 219-xxvii - Twenty-eighth Report of Session 2014-15
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. European Scrutiny CommitteePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 0215081005
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
House of Commons - Committee of Public Accounts - Integration Across Government And Whole-Place Community Budgets - HC 472
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public AccountsPublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215061591
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
For many years Governments have sought to breakdown silo working in departments and ensure better integration across departments to ensure more effective services and better value for money. The Cabinet Office and the Treasury are best placed to support and promote integration across the Government, as they are responsible for coordinating policy and allocating monies. However, they are failing to provide the necessary strategic leadership and are not doing enough to tackle the barriers to integration. These include the lack of good information to identify where the Government could do better by joining services, funding arrangements which make it difficult for bodies to invest in joint working, and the risk that Accounting Officers are reluctant to pool budgets in case they lose control and authority. In contrast, the Whole-Place Community Budgets programme has involved local public bodies and central government working together to develop evidence-based plans for new integrated services. Four local areas have analysed in detail the expected costs and benefits of integration and their findings show clear potential for improving outcomes and reducing costs. The Department for Communities and Local Government, which manages the Whole-Place Community Budgets programme, has provided effective support to date. However, if other central government departments are not committed to Whole-Place Community Budgets it may, like similar initiatives in the past, fail to deliver any significant and lasting change. The programme must be evaluated properly to see whether the early promise translates to real change on the ground and improves value for money.
House of Commons - Committee of Public Accounts: HMRC Tax Collection: Annual Report & Accounts 2012-13 - HC 666
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public AccountsPublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215065834
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
In pursuing unpaid tax, HMRC has not clearly demonstrated that it is on the side of the majority of taxpayers who pay their taxes in full. Last year the Department collected less tax in real terms than it managed to collect in 2011-12. This was despite the stated ambition to crack down on tax avoidance. The tax gap as defined by HMRC did not shrink, but in 2011-12 grew to £35 billion. Furthermore, this figure does not include all the tax revenue lost. HMRC pursues tax owed by the smaller businesses but seems to lose its nerve when it comes to mounting prosecutions against multinational corporations. It predicted that it would collect £3.12 billion unpaid tax from UK holders of Swiss bank accounts and this figure was built into budget estimates, but in 2013-14 it has so far secured just £440 million. HMRC aims to make the UK more attractive to business but the incentives to international corporations may also enable them to avoid tax. HMRC needs to strike the right balance between support and enforcement. The implementation of the Real Time Information system has been encouraging overall though some small businesses are continuing to struggle. It is of concern that HMRC is planning from April 2014 to fine companies even though some face continuing challenges. The successful implementation of Universal Credit depends on RTI continuing to work properly but the system does not have full disaster recovery arrangements. System failures could have serious consequences for payments to individuals
HC 1114 - Probation: Landscape Review
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public AccountsPublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 0215072790
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Ministry of Justice is implementing wholesale changes to how rehabilitation services for offenders are delivered in England and Wales on a highly ambitious timescale. It intends to introduce new private and voluntary providers, bring in a payment by results system, create a new National Probation Service and extend the service to short-term prisoners in a very short time period. This is very challenging and this report sets out a number of risks that need to be managed. The probation service in England and Wales supervised 225,000 offenders in our communities during 2012-13, at a cost of £853 million. The service is currently delivered by 35 Probation Trusts which are independent Non-Departmental Public Bodies, reporting directly to the National Offender Management Service. As part of the Ministry's Transforming Rehabilitation reforms, the Trusts will cease to operate from 31 May 2014 and will be abolished shortly afterwards, to be replaced by a National Probation Service and 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies. The scale, complexity and pace of the reforms give rise to risks around value for money which need to be carefully managed. The Committee welcomes the Accounting Officer's assurances that the Ministry will not proceed with the arrangements unless it is safe to do so. The Ministry expects the new National Probation Service and the 21 Community Rehabilitation Companies to begin operating from 1 June 2014 with only a limited opportunity for parallel running of the new arrangements during April and May 2014. The movement of staff, records and implementation of the arrangements required to make the new structures operate are ongoing. Initially the Community Rehabilitation Companies will be in public ownership pending a share sale, expected in time to launch a payment by results mechanism in 2015.