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  1. Fraud landscape review

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    The exact scale of fraud within government is unknown. The quality and completeness of fraud data is often variable.

  2. Department for Work and Pensions 2015-16 accounts

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    The Comptroller and Auditor General, Amyas Morse, has qualified his audit opinion on the regularity of the 2015-16 accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions. This is owing to the unacceptably high level of fraud and error in benefit expenditure, other than State Pension where the level of fraud and error is lower.

  4. Confirmed impacts: Increasing the effectiveness of tax collection

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    This impacts case study shows that HM Revenue & Customs has implemented more than 80% of our 130 recommendations since 2010, leading to significant reduction in tax avoidance and improvements in accountability and governance regarding tax disputes.

    It is one example of financial or non-financial benefits realised in 2014 as a result of our involvement, all of which are set out in our interactive PDF.

  5. Replacing the Aspire contract

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    This memorandum has been prepared to support the Committee of Public Accounts consideration of HMRC’s approach to replacing its contract for IT services with Capgemini, known as Aspire. We set out HMRC’s approach, its business cases and the risks it has to manage. It does not seek to evaluate HMRC’s approach or progress, and therefore does not draw conclusions.

    June 2016

  7. A Short Guide to HM Revenue & Customs

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    The NAO is publishing a suite of short guides, one for each government department, to assist House of Commons Select Committees.

  8. Managing the HMRC Estate

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    By reducing the number of its offices and moving to a regional centre model HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) hopes to significantly reduce its running costs and modernise the way it works. HMRC’s original plan has proved unrealistic and is now reconsidering the scope and timing of the programme. Any changes will need to be carefully managed to avoid diminishing the long term value of the strategy.

  10. Fraud and Error Stocktake

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    The government continues to lose large amounts of money through fraud and error overpayments and many vulnerable people get less support than they are entitled to.

  11. Investigation into HMRC’s contract with Concentrix

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    HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC’s) contract with Synnex-Concentrix UK Ltd was terminated in November 2016. The contract was designed to add capacity to HMRC’s programme of interventions to prevent or detect error and fraud in personal tax credits awards. HMRC estimated that the contract would save £1 billion over its three year life time and an estimated £193 million, excluding Concentrix’s costs, had been saved by the time of contract termination.

  12. The quality of service for personal taxpayers

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    HMRC aimed to move more customers online thereby reducing staff costs but significant numbers of staff were let go before technical improvements were completed leading to a collapse in service quality in 2015. Services have since improved.

  13. Housing Benefit fraud and error

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    The Department for Work & Pensions should have increased its focus on Housing Benefit fraud and error sooner, and is now facing an escalating problem.

  14. Tax reliefs

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    There are more than 1000 tax reliefs in the UK tax system. The NAO intends to carry out future work evaluating how they are developed and implemented.

  16. Confirmed impacts: NAO report helps HMRC improve customer service (2013)

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    Within the programme of improvement already started by HMRC, the NAO helped ensure that, in January 2013, HMRC committed to improving customer service.

    This NAO impacts case study represents one example where there has been some beneficial change, whether financial or non-financial, resulting from our involvement.

  17. The effective management of tax reliefs

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    HM Treasury and HMRC do not keep track of tax reliefs intended to change behaviour, or adequately report to Parliament on whether tax reliefs work as expected.

  19. Progress in tackling tobacco smuggling

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    Tobacco smuggling is a significant threat to tax revenues. HMRC’s renewed strategy sets out the right measures but the Department’s performance is disappointing.

  20. 2012-13 review of the data systems for HM Revenue and Customs

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    Review of a sample of the data systems underpinning the input and impact indicators in HM Revenue & Customs’ Business Plan, Common Areas of Spend and wider management information.
    This review was carried out on the 2012-15 Business Plan. Revised Business Plans were issued in June 2013.