Inland Revenue has teamed up with software developers and concerned agencies to come up with the software.
“The business transformation programme is cutting back paper forms and will let businesses manage most taxes through their normal business or payroll software,” said Revenue Minister Peter Dunne.
Beginning April, Inland Revenue will offer businesses a secure access to key account information through third-party software.
The software will permit tax agents to view their clients’ tax data from within their practice management solutions. In the future, more information will be available.
“Businesses can see tax as a complicated process involving a lot of paperwork,” said Dunne.
Through the software, Inland Revenue aims to make compliance with business tax payment easier and less costly.
This will be the first step for Inland Revenue towards a complete business-to-business (B2B) system.
“It’s one example of Inland Revenue working with the private sector to reduce compliance costs for business,” said Dunne.
In the coming years, strides will be taken to eliminate the practice of having companies and their accountants access their tax information via separate channels. Soon, they will be able to see instantly onscreen their tax transactions.
These changes are done in conjunction with a tax bill passed last year that requires a new framework for cross-agency information sharing to make tax compliance simpler.
“If Inland Revenue can share basic information with other departments it means people don’t have to keep supplying the same details over and over,” said Dunne.
Inland Revenue is steadily moving its services online. It provides and continues to enhance other e-services such as that for family and individual customers, email and text alerts, and GST online filing.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Johanna Morden
Quelle/Source: futuregov, 21.02.2011
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