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Taxation and Taxes - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about egovernment activities and intiatives related to taxation and taxes.
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- Taxation and Taxes - Australia
- Articles relating to taxation and in Australia including the Australian Taxation Office.
Added: 7 December 2005
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- Taxation and taxes - Canada
- Articles and resources about Canadian government initiatives relating to taxation and taxes.
Added: 12 December 2005
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- Taxation and taxes - United Kingdom - Archive
- Articles and resources about egovernment initiatives relating to taxation in the United Kingdom.
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- Tax Office tests e-tax for Mac
- By Liz Tay. IT News, May 16, 2013. "To launch in late June. The Australian Taxation Office is weeks away from releasing the first version of its individual tax return software, e-tax, for Mac users. The ATO has offered e-tax as a free download to Windows users since 1999 and planned to develop a version for Apple’s Mac operating system since 2007.."
Added: 17 May 2013;
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- Tax office CIO outlines plan for delivering 'digital by default'
- The ATO is planning to launch the new ato.gov.au website on 1 July, says ATO's Bill Gibson, by Rebecca Merrett, CIO, 3 May, 2013. "A revamped online presence for the Australian Tax Office will help the government agency deliver 'digital by default', according to ATO CIO Bill Gibson. The ATO is planning to launch the new ato.gov.au website on 1 July, offering more self-help and business services online. Some ATO services currently require the user to have to make a phone call or fill in a form. 'Part of the reason for having to do it today that way is because of our paranoia with identity. So as long as we get that identity right then there is no reason why you can’t do it online yourself,' Gibson said..."
Added: 6 May 2013;
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- IRS Should Be Doing More With Its Websites, GAO Says
- By Joseph Marks. NextGov, 17 April 2013. "The Internal Revenue Service's Web tools lag behind other federal agencies and some state governments, especially its inability to give taxpayers secure online access to most of their records, a government auditor said Tuesday. The tax agency has also been too slow to collect data on how people are using its current Web offerings and to plan upgrades accordingly, the Government Accountability Office report said..."
Added: 18 April 2013;
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- ATO pays DWS AU$5M to get e-tax ready for tax time
- By Josh Taylor, ZDNet, January 10, 2013. "Summary: The ATO has given DWS a further AU$5 million to get the e-tax software ready for tax time this year. The much-complained-about issue of Mac compatibility for e-tax looks set to be resolved this year, with the Australian Tax Office (ATO) giving Melbourne-based company DWS a further AU$5 million to get the software ready for tax time this year..."
Added: 6 February 2013;
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- SF Launches Tax Credit App
- Government Technology, November 19, 2012. "Businesses in San Francisco now have an easier way to apply for tax credits for their employees. A new web-based tool called the San Francisco Enterprise Zone Web App was announced by Mayor Edwin M. Lee on Nov. 16. The tool will replace a completely paper-based process that local businesses use to save money using a state program established in 1997, but that is still unknown by many..."
Added: 26 November 2012;
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- Australia's e-tax service hits 20 million lodgments over 13 years - an egovernment case study
- eGov AU - Craig Thomler's professional blog - eGovernment and Gov 2.0 thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective, Monday 5 November 2012. "Most people under the age of 35 probably don't remember a world without e-tax, a system developed by the Australian Tax Office to make it simpler and faster for Australians to complete their tax returns... Last week I noticed an announcement that e-tax had just reached 20 million lodgments (as at 31 October this year). So I asked the ATO for some information about e-tax over the years - who is using it and where they live. The information I received provided an interesting glimpse into the history of e-tax..."
Added: 5 November 2012;
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- ATO leading the world in discriminating against Mac users
- by Bernard Keane. Crikey, Thursday, 12 July 2012. "As tax filing time comes around again, and the now-ritual complaints about the Australian Tax Office's discrimination against Mac and Linux users are uttered, Crikey has learnt the Australian Tax Office is one of the few developed world tax offices that refuses to accept online tax form lodgement from non-Windows users..."
Added: 19 July 2012;
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- Canada Revenue Agency discontinues TELEFILE service
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada News Centre, June 27, 2012... "The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) announced that it is discontinuing its TELEFILE service. TELEFILE is a telephone-based service that allows individuals to file simple tax returns over the phone. Use of this service has declined, on average, by 10 per cent every year as taxpayers move to other channels, such as the CRA’s secure, convenient online services. In fact, between 2011 and 2012, use of the service declined by 12.3 per cent..."
Added: 2 July 2012;
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- ATO explains Mac e-tax delay
- By Josh Taylor, ZDNet Australia, June 29th, 2012. "The Australian Tax Office has defended its decision to delay releasing Mac-compatible e-tax software until 2013, stating that there were security issues that needed to be sorted out..."
Added: 2 July 2012;
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- Cook County, Ill., Portal Unites Taxpayer Data
- By Noelle Knell. Government Technology, June 12, 2012. "Governments have long realized that citizens don't necessarily associate government functions with the proper agency or department. Distinctions between the many offices involved in taxation, for example, are irrelevant to the average person. They just want to know how to get information. In Cook County, Ill., several different offices, led by separately elected officials, each have a hand in property taxes. Home to Chicago, Cook County is the second most-populous county in the country, with approximately 1.7 million separate parcels. A new Web portal unites information from the Cook County Treasurer's Office, the Assessor's Office, Clerk's Office, Recorder of Deeds and the Board of Review in one location, to provide a comprehensive view of all property tax-related information at one online location..."
Added: 13 June 2012;
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- New app calculates your tax and how it is spent
- HM Treasury, News Release, 36/12, 28 May 2012. "The Government is today launching a new tax calculator enabling people to work out how much tax they pay and how the Government spends it. The tax calculator can be downloaded as a free mobile phone app and is also available on the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) website..."
Added: 31 May 2012;
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- Government launches new tax app
- Free tax calculator app allows people to work out how much tax they pay. Guardian Government Computing - Guardian Professional, Tuesday 29 May 2012. "The government has launched a new online tax calculator, which allows people to work out how much tax they pay and how the government spends it..."
Added: 31 May 2012;
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- New mobile apps to help with record-keeping
- Issued by HM Revenue and Customs Press Office, 16 April 2012. "The software industry, after consultation with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), is producing simple record keeping mobile apps for small businesses. The apps, which are mostly free, complement existing HMRC record-keeping guidance and tools. They aim to help small businesses and the self-employed who are below the VAT threshold - £77,000 maintain good records and estimate what their tax liability might be..."
Added: 20 April 2012;
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- HMRC starts PAYE real-time reporting pilot
- New electronic PAYE system to be introduced gradually, with mass rollout due by October 2013, By Antony Savvas. Computerworld UK, 11 April 2012. "HMRC has started a pilot among volunteer employers for its Real Time Information (RTI) system that will automatically update employee tax records. HMRC and the government have come under criticism for effectively writing off millions of pounds of owed tax or benefit overpayments, and RTI promises to help tackle the problem..."
Added: 12 April 2012;
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- ATO mulls e-tax as a web application
- By Michael Lee, ZDNet Australia, March 29th, 2012. "The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is looking into the possibility of developing a web application for e-tax, even though its current study to port the application to another platform only considers Mac OS X..."
Added: 30 March 2012;
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