POWER TO THE PEOPLE

摘要

On 14 November2011, HMRC issued a consultation paper, Modernising the administration of the personal tax system: tax transparency for individuals. The accompanying note from the Treasury minister David Gauke says that one of the government's main aims is to make the tax system easier for individuals to use and understand, and to make it more transparent. This would include making it easier for taxpayers to see how much tax they have paid, how it has been calculated, and what their overall rate of tax is. Other countries (for example, Ireland) provide taxpayers with their own personal online tax account containing up-to-date information on their income and the tax they have paid.