• successive, record-breaking increases in the collection of tax revenues due and compliance revenues • a general downward trend in the tax gap – the gap between tax owed and tax paid • an overall recovery in customer service levels • the introduction of Making Tax Digital – online business tax accounts • opening HMRC’s first regional centre with two more due this year • preparing for the challenges and opportunities of Brexit
Sir Jonathan said in a statement:
"It’s been a tremendous privilege to lead HMRC for more than three years, so to leave now has not been an easy decision for me to make. However, to have the opportunity to lead the FRC, as it turns into the Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority, and to promote public trust in doing business in the UK, at a point when we’re about to forge new alliances across the world, is too exciting to turn down."
The announcement comes as HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2018-19 show HMRC in a strong position collecting record revenues due for public services.
This new enhanced regulator was announced by Business Secretary Greg Clark in response to the comprehensive Independent Review led by Sir John Kingman. The new regulator will have a new mandate and stronger powers set down in law.
Sir Jonathan will take up this new role in the Autumn. The recruitment process will begin shortly and an announcement about a successor will be made in due course.
Jim Harra, Deputy Chief Executive and Second Permanent Secretary at HMRC, continues to be the department’s lead for exiting the EU, as has been the case since he took over this role in January 2018.
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Gender equality at every stage: a roadmap for change 24 July 2019
The Government Equalities Office has published a ‘roadmap’ which sets out the vision and actions to tackle persistent gendered inequalities, alongside the ‘case for change and gender equality monitor’.
Government state that your gender should not define or limit the choices you make about what you study, where you work, your career ambitions and how you care for others. The roadmap sets out its vision to enable everyone to contribute to the country’s economy and balance caring responsibilities with a rewarding career.
The roadmap sets out how Government is going to tackling these eight key drivers of inequality:
1. Limiting attitudes to gender can hold women and men back across their lives 2. Women tend to work in lower paid sectors and occupations, and are less likely to progress 3. The working age benefits system hasn’t always tackled the disadvantages that women and those with caring responsibilities face 4. Women take more time out of the labour market to care for children 5. Women are providing more informal care and unpaid work for others 6. Some women face barriers returning to or entering the labour market 7. Women are more likely to face financial instability later in life, due to decisions taken throughout working life 8. We need to ensure that we sustain strong foundations for the future
Published alongside the roadmap for change is a longer case for change which examines in greater depth the factors that underlie gendered differences in work and pay, supporting the vision and action laid out in the roadmap.
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