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Fraud-hit tax credits website to remain closed
News Dawn Primarolo said: "The department advised me that by the summer of 2008 the necessary IT and identification checks built into the system will be available and it could reopen then. The tax credits website closed down... [19 Mar 2007]
Taxman to invest £340m expanding e-services
News Paymaster general Dawn Primarolo welcomed Carter's report and said in a statement: "An expansion in electronic delivery of tax returns will benefit businesses and taxpayers with savings of £175m a year through... [23 Mar 2006]
Tax credit fiasco: 8,800 identities stolen
News The Treasury did not respond to silicon.com's requests for comment about the tax fraud but in a statement to parliament yesterday, paymaster general Dawn Primarolo revealed more details of the fraud.... [19 Jan 2006]
Criminals make 20,000 false tax credit claims
News In answer to questions from MPs last week, Dawn Primarolo, paymaster-general, said more than half of these claims were the result of organised attacks, and HMRC intervened in another 22,380 cases where tax credit was... [16 Jan 2006]
"Nightmare" tax credit IT system cost £236m
News Paymaster general Dawn Primarolo has now revealed the full cost of the IT system in answer to a Parliamentary Question this week. The government has revealed that a total of £236m - exclusive of VAT - has been paid to... [27 Oct 2005]
Tax credit IT under fresh attack
News Paymaster General Dawn Primarolo said there is still work to do on the system. The government is facing renewed criticism of the design and implementation of the IT systems behind its flagship tax credits programme. [22 Jun 2005]
EDS IT failure fingered for "unacceptable" tax credit delays
News MPs are pushing for the Revenue to seek compensation from EDS for the failures and Paymaster General, Dawn Primarolo, told the committee there is provision in the department's contract with EDS for performance-related... [24 Jul 2003]
Probe into £15bn pensions top-up botch completed
News Paymaster General Dawn Primarolo made a written statement to MPs this week saying the Inland Revenue had accepted the inquiry’s recommendations. Primarolo was also forced to admit to MPs this week that... [20 Jun 2003]
Pensions probe launched following top-ups botch
News Paymaster General Dawn Primarolo told MPs on Friday that the decision was intended to be a temporary measure. Primarolo has now ordered an inquiry to report by the end of the month why ministers were not... [19 May 2003]
Curtain call: last chance for IR35?
Comment However, the victory was short lived and paymaster general Dawn Primarolo maintained the IR35 tax laws is necessary to create a fairer tax regime. The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) came into force when the UK... [25 Jun 2000]
IR35 lobbyists defeated as Lords accept tax changes
News Both the Inland Revenue and the Paymaster General Dawn Primarolo have assured opposition MPs and contractor representative organisations that it will meet for further consultation over implementation in the coming... [09 Nov 1999]
Lords to reconsider IR35 in light of Commons vote
News Cable added that the Inland Revenue and the Paymaster General, Dawn Primarolo, had personally promised him they would discuss with industry the finer details of implementing the Bill. The government's Welfare Reforms and... [04 Nov 1999]
Commons vote sends IR35 back to the Lords
News But the government has insisted that it will not back down and after making amendments to the Bill in September, Paymaster General Dawn Primarolo wrote in an open letter to the press: "What we now propose is fair,... [04 Nov 1999]
IT industry left fuming over IR35 revisions
News Professor Burton added that the government's revised plans to stop tax avoidance - pushed through by Paymaster General, Dawn Primarolo - are arithmetically wrong. The government's revised IR35 plans for the taxation of... [26 Sep 1999]
PCG slams government over secret IR35 meeting with EDS
News In a letter to the government's paymaster general Dawn Primarolo, PCG director David Ramsden accuses the government of straying from the proper consultative process. The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) has launched... [08 Sep 1999]
