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A focus on topical tax issues - December 2014
Inland Revenue’s 2014 Annual Report: some reading between the lines
Inland Revenue (IR) recently released its annual report for the year ended 30 June 2014 (the report). Consistent with previous years, IR has continued to focus on achieving more of its performance targets, operating more efficiently, recovering more debt and winning more cases.
The report notes that IR is making tax simpler, more open and more certain. There has been an emphasis on building a tax system for the future as IR simplifies and streamlines the tax system, transforms tax policies and makes use of new technology to modernise the tax system.
We have outlined below some highlights from the report, as well as commenting on some areas where the arguably more interesting points are to be drawn from what the report does not say, rather than what it does in fact state. More >
Tax Alert December 2014