Amyas Morse, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) of the National Audit Office, has reported on the 2017-18 accounts of HM Revenue & Customs. His report focuses on tax revenue; Personal Tax Credits and Child Benefit error and fraud; and HMRC’s digital transformation programme.
Report examining the underpayment of state pension, setting out how this happened and what DWP is doing to rectify this.
The Comptroller and Auditor General, has published his audit opinion on the 2011-12 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions.
HMRC and the Treasury do not know if incentives designed to increase charitable giving, at a cost to the taxpayer of £940 million in 2012-13, have resulted in more income for charities.
This report looks at whether the government is achieving value for money in its management of child maintenance.
The Comptroller & Auditor General , Gareth Davies, has qualified his opinion on the regularity of HMRC’s 2018-19 Resource Accounts.
The Comptroller and Auditor General has reported on the 2018-19 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions.
The Whole of Government Accounts consolidates the public sector’s accounts to produce a picture of the UK’s public finances.
The NAO has published its report on the 2010-11 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions.
Amyas Morse, the Comptroller and Auditor General, has today issued a report on the 2016-17 accounts of HM Revenue & Customs.
This investigation examines the recent increase in identified errors in Carer’s Allowance and attempts to recover overpayments.
This report aims to evaluate and conclude on HM Treasury’s overall approach to over-indebtedness.
This investigation sets out facts about penalty charge notices and how the NHS supports vulnerable people to navigate the system.
It will be difficult for government departments to achieve value for money from means-tested benefits unless government understands the impacts of means testing, learns from past experience and improves coordination between different benefits.
This investigation covers a single, major cause of underpayment error in ESA. This error relates to people whose existing benefit claim was converted to ESA and who were entitled to income-related ESA but were only awarded contribution-based ESA.
This report examines how the DWP is managing the process of getting to first payment in Universal Credit.
The NAO have investigated concerns that online sellers outside the EU are avoiding charging VAT.
HMRC’s progress in stabilising the PAYE service, its performance in managing tax debt; and its progress in tackling tax credit overpayment.
The report details progress by HMRC in stabilising and operating the PAYE service and its progress towards the implementation of its new Real Time Information service. The report also covers HMRC’s performance in tackling VAT fraud, and in reducing error and fraud in personal tax credits.
This report identifies lessons from the management and performance of the packaging recycling obligation system.