China joins India with formal backing for Copenhagen Accord
All major greenhouse gas emitters bar Russia have now formally endorsed Copenhagen deal China has today joined with India in formally signing up to the Copenhagen Accord, making it the last major emerging economy to endorse the controversial agreement...Read more |
Interactive Ideas set sights on Germany
Distributor appoints account manager to oversee German sales drive Distributor Interactive Ideas has expanded its management team to drive sales of the SolarWinds application management product portfolio in Germany. The firm has appointed Michael Meyer, Read more |
Symantec to reward storage savers
Vendor to reward VARs with financial incentives for datacentre efficiency gains. Symantec is to launch a partner incentive initiative aimed at helping end users make better use of their storage infrastructure capacity....Read more |
Fujitsu shares collapse over redundancy row
Former president reveals illness was not the real reason for his departure Former Fujitsu president Kuniaki Nozoe has revealed he was forced to leave the firm in September owing to connections with an unnamed business of " unfavourable reputation"....Read more |
CRC threatens smart meter supply pinch
Consultancy warns rush to install Automatic Meter Reading systems could result in some smart meter projects taking longer than expected A clause in the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) regulations that allows firms to climb the league table showing partRead more |
HMRC urged to put more tax services online
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) should widen the provision of online taxservices to save money and reduce the levels of errors in tax returns, according
to a
National
Audit Office (NAO) report.
The department has already encouraged online filing of Income Tax Self
Assessment returns, which saved an estimated £5m in processing costs in 2007-08.
But more could still be done, says the NAO report.
"The department should widen the provision of online services by emailing
rather than posting PAYE tax coding notices to those who have filed their Income
Tax Self Assessment returns online," it says.
The department should also seek to reinstate the online service for Tax
Credit claimants once it has successfully piloted a new secure service and
gained the necessary funding, says the NAO.
Problems with the original tax credits IT system run by EDS when it was
launched in 2003 affected 455,000 households and led to overpayments of £1.9bn.
Earlier this year a long-running dispute between HMRC and EDS over the system
ended with the US supplier agreeing to pay the government £26.5m.
The NAO report also says HMRC should explore the benefits and costs of
contracting out more high-volume, less-sensitive, automated data capture work.
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