Tax measures to encourage economic growth
Published on:Although government provides billions in tax reliefs each year to encourage growth, it does not monitor or evaluate them closely enough.
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Tax avoidance: tackling marketed avoidance schemes
Published on:HMRC is making some headway in reducing opportunities for tax avoidance, but over 100 new schemes have been disclosed in each of the last four years.
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Taking the measure of government performance
Published on:In its final review of the quality of the data systems used by departments to measure progress against PSAs, the NAO underlines the vital importance of measuring government performance.
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Tackling Violent Crime
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Tackling violence against women and girls
Published on:This report examines efforts to address gender based violence, to support government’s target to halve violence against women and girls.
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Tackling the tax gap
Published on:This report examines the effectiveness of HMRC’s approach, in partnership with HM Treasury, in reducing the tax gap.
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Tackling the hidden economy
Published on:HM Revenue & Customs achieved a return of around £4.50 for every £1 spent on tackling the hidden economy in 2006-07 and recent campaigns to encourage people into the formal economy have achieved much higher returns. But, according to the National Audit Office, the penalties the Department imposes when it detects people in the hidden […]
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Tackling tax fraud: how HMRC responds to tax evasion, the hidden economy and criminal attacks
Published on:HMRC has met its targets to raise more tax revenue in the short-term; however, an estimated £16 billion is lost to tax fraud each year. HMRC needs to improve the way it uses data and analysis to understand the effect of its actions to tackle fraud.
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Tackling tax evasion in high street and online retail
Published on:The UK is losing billions of pounds a year due to tax evasion by small businesses, which can easily exploit weaknesses in government systems.
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Tackling tax credits error and fraud
Published on:HMRC has improved its approach to tackling error and fraud in tax credits but still lost £2.3 billion in 2010-11.
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Tackling serious and organised crime
Published on:This report examines whether the government tackles serious and organised crime in an effective and coherent way.
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Tackling rural poverty in developing countries
Published on:The Department for International Development’s aid programmes have helped the rural poor in developing countries. But poverty in rural areas must be substantially reduced if DFID is to meet its targets, according to a report out today by the National Audit Office. More than 1.1 billion people worldwide are living in extreme poverty. Around 75 […]
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Tackling problem drug use
Published on:A report by the NAO into government action to tackle problem drug use has concluded that there has been good progress in a number of areas, including an increasing number of problem drug users in effective treatment and an increasing number leaving treatment free from dependency. Without an evaluative framework for the Strategy as a […]
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Tackling problem debt
Published on:This report aims to evaluate and conclude on HM Treasury’s overall approach to over-indebtedness.
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Tackling pensioner poverty: Encouraging take-up of entitlements
Published on:Head of the National Audit Office, Sir John Bourn, reported today that, in recognising the good progress made by the Department for Work and Pensions and other public bodies working with pensioners in encouraging benefit take up, more could be done. Although two million pensioners live in low-income households, many tens of thousand miss out […]
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Tackling Obesity in England
Published on:Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, told Parliament today that the prevalence of obesity in England had tripled over the last 20 years and continues to rise. Most adults in England are now overweight, and one in five is obese. Producing the first authoritative estimates of the costs and consequences of obesity […]
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Tackling local breaches of air quality
Published on:This report examines government’s progress in tackling local breaches of NO2 limits and its performance on air quality more broadly.
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Tackling inequalities in life expectancy in areas with the worst health and deprivation
Published on:The Department of Health has made a serious attempt to tackle health inequalities across England. But, having set a target in 2000 to reduce health inequalities, it was slow to take action and health inequalities were not a top priority for the NHS until 2006.
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Tackling fraud and corruption against government
Published on:Most public bodies do not know how much fraud they face and cannot demonstrate that they have the correct level of counter fraud resources.
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Tackling Fraud against the Inland Revenue
Published on:The Inland Revenue face real threats of fraud and continued efforts are required to tackle the problem, according to a National Audit Office report to Parliament published today. It is important that the Revenue have a clear view of the resources and approaches they are going to use to tackle those risks. They should increase […]