http://www.silicon.com Results for tax credits en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://services.silicon.com/offshoring/0,3800004877,39453991,00.htm Whether these grants are in the form of tax credits or incentives does not matter but business should be encouraged financially to employ and develop talent locally. I believe the government should set a tax on British corporations which choose to... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:19:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39421966,00.htm Despite tax credits to the tune of £3bn for R&D since 2000, science and technology research has not yielded sufficient numbers of products to market, said the government. The government has announced a review of its strategy for promoting UK... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:33:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39410948,00.htm Since the scheme was set up in 2003 until 2007, the taxman has overpaid £7.3bn in tax credits. Outdated computer systems are contributing to a huge backlog of people who may not be paying the right amount of tax, a committee of MPs has found. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:22:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39374649,00.htm Paye, National Insurance, child benefit and tax credits, which the Poynter report found increased the security risk by duplicating information. The department has experienced several years of problems with the tax credits computer system that led... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:56:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39372270,00.htm Difficulties with the system resulted in HMRC overpaying £6bn in tax credits during the three years after its introduction in 2003. In a settlement first announced in 2005, EDS agreed to pay £71.25m to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) over problems with... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:30:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39252130,00.htm It found that systems such as Paye, National Insurance, Child Benefit and Tax Credits are operating as separate systems, each with their own individual customer record. Three separate investigations have looked into HM Revenue & Custom's loss of 25... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:28:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/travel/0,3800011481,39241252,00.htm Subjects range from self assessment tax returns to child trust funds and tax credits. As the summer holiday season ramps up, HM Revenue & Customs has published a podcast offering advice to travellers on what can and can't be brought back into the... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:48:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39169914,00.htm MPs have called on the government to take legal action against outsourcing giant EDS to recoup the millions of pounds the company still owes over the tax credits IT fiasco.silicon.com Public Sector Difficulties with the scheme resulted in HMRC... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/cio2007/0,3800013886,39167123,00.htm Working at such a high-profile department as HMRC Lamey is under intense public scrutiny and it has been something of a roller-coaster ride, what with some of the problems he inherited, such as the fallout from the tax credits fiasco. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:17:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39166477,00.htm While tax credits for spending on research and development are up, it was disappointing that there was a lack of measures targeted specifically at the IT industry and bridging the digital divide. The emphasis of the Budget was on tax cuts and green... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:20:06 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/smedirector/0,39024679,39166474,00.htm More than 6,000 claims for the R&D tax credits were received between 2004 and 2005, amounting to nearly £600m of government funding for business R&D during that period, according to Treasury figures. Paul Stobart, CEO of software company Sage, told... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:40:03 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39166421,00.htm The tax credits website closed down by ID fraudsters in 2005 will not be back online before next summer at the earliest - and may never be reopened, the government has admitted. The HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) 'e-portal' was targeted by criminals... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:50:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39162917,00.htm Cameron also hit out at the delayed NHS IT "shambles" and listed a litany of high-profile government IT failures during Blair's time in power - "a story of wasted billions - and disappointed millions" - including the e-Universities, Individual... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:05:03 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39162798,00.htm Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown introduced the R&D tax credits in 2002, which allow businesses to deduct their tech R&D costs from the amount they pay in tax on their profits. But the tax breaks have suffered from poor take-up with a... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:15:04 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/careers/0,39024671,39159835,00.htm The 'Time to Train' campaign will lobby government to give tax credits to companies which give staff time off for training. He said: "Tax credits will help increase training frequency and will likely be received positively in the UK especially by... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:00:06 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39158912,00.htm The organisation processes 90 per cent of all UK salaries and government payments, including benefit and Inland Revenue tax credits. Nine out of 10 customers are happy with the way one of the biggest ever electronic banking migration projects was... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 15 May 2006 15:15:03 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39158320,00.htm A new NAO report on the continuing problems with the tax credits system out this week has criticised the deal as an "unwelcome arrangement" and said there is no guarantee EDS will win sufficient business to trigger full payment of the compensation. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:01:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/ciojury/0,3800003161,39157509,00.htm The verdict comes in the same week that Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown delivered his 10th Budget, in which he took away with one hand - by controversially scrapping the tax breaks for Home Computing schemes - and gave with the other - by... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:40:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39157442,00.htm Among the recommendations Barrington suggests are tax credits for companies that are able to get more staff working remotely, thus cutting out unnecessary travel and carbon dioxide emissions. The IT industry is calling on Chancellor Gordon Brown to... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:40:03 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39156588,00.htm We have higher taxes to pay for local and central services, which in the case of the Child Support Agency or the Tax Credits system, squander huge amounts of public money on wasteful, ill-conceived projects, dreamt up by a handful of very large IT... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:30:03 +0000