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Chart of the week: UN budget contributions 2025
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- 14 Feb 2025
Our chart this week looks at the assessed contributions of member states to the United Nations Regular Budget for 2025.
NAO reports and insights published in Winter 2024-25
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- 11 Feb 2025
The National Audit Office publishes a wide range of reports. Below is a selection that are especially topical and of interest to ICAEW members and the wider profession.
Business tax compliance costs £15bn a year
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- 10 Feb 2025
In its latest report, the National Audit Office (NAO) explores the costs for businesses in meeting their tax obligations and for HMRC in administering the tax system. It reveals UK businesses incur costs of at least £15.4bn each year.
Chart of the week: the end of year capital rush
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- 07 Feb 2025
Our chart this week highlights the big rush in UK public sector capital expenditure in the final quarter of each financial year, prompting us to ask why March is the best time of the year to build new assets.
Chart of the week: Pensioners on the rise
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- 31 Jan 2025
Our chart this week highlights how the number of pensioners in the UK is expected to increase by 14% over the next 10 years. This will have major implications for the public finances.
Technical round-up: January 2025
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- 30 Jan 2025
This month’s top stories feature Parliament accusing HMRC of damaging trust in the tax system; a warning to not respond to a fraudulent agent services text message; and more from the How to fix VAT campaign.
NAO guide to aid financial management in government
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- 30 Jan 2025
The latest in a series of best practice guides brings together feedback from experts including ICAEW and highlights the need to spend smarter against a backdrop of tight public funds.
Chart of the week: Make America Indebted Again!
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- 24 Jan 2025
Our chart looks at official projections, published three days before President Trump was inaugurated for the second time, that predict federal debt is on track to return to and exceed levels last seen in the 1940s.
Public finance woe as Chancellor battles to stay on track
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- 23 Jan 2025
The latest public sector finance figures from the Office of National Statistics are slightly worse than expected as the economy remains fragile.
MPs sceptical about Office for Value for Money impact
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- 23 Jan 2025
A lack of resources, a short lifespan and high risk of duplication has left MPs on the Treasury Committee sceptical about the OVfM achieving its objectives.
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