DigiD Authorise, a new function of citizens' Digital Identity (DigiD), was used this year by the Netherlands' Tax Administration (Belastingdienst, in Dutch) in a pilot scheme. The Tax Administration printed an authorisation code on the tax return letters. To authorise an agent to act on their behalf, the taxpayer passed this authorisation code on to the agent. The agent was then able to use this authorisation code and their own personal DigiD to do the tax return for the taxpayer.
To encourage the use of DigiD Authorise, an advertising campaign was run beginning in March 2011. The theme here was 'keep your DigiD private' to emphasise that people should not reveal their DigiD to others. DigiD Authorise makes it possible to keep DigiD private whilst enabling an agent to act easily and reliably on the citizen's behalf.
DigiD Authorise contributes to realising a compact and efficient government, with less administrative burden. It was developed by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties, in Dutch), in close cooperation with the Tax Administration, and is now managed by Logius, the digital government service of the Ministry. In future, Logius will use the experience of the pilot scheme to take DigiD Authorise further.
Further information:
- Original news article - Logius (in Dutch)
- Related ePractice news article - NL: DigiD Authorise system improves digital identity privacy
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Quelle/Source: epractice, 05.05.2011
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