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RSS budgetIT chiefs lobby for tax breaks in UK budget
News UK technology experts have spoken to Silicon.com about their Budget '99 wish list as Chancellor Gordon Brown prepares to present his speech in the House of Commons later this afternoon. Tax relief for investment in R&D (research and development... [08 Mar 1999]
WIC Budget Proposal Would Discourage Cost Containment and Represent Unsound Policy
White Paper The Administration's budget proposes a significant policy change in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) that would have adverse effects on the program. The proposal would override the provision in the... [20 May 2005]
Viewing the U.S. Government Budget as a Digital Library
White Paper Government Budget for FY93, 94 and 95. We developed a prototype of a digital library designed to browse, query, mine and visualize large amounts of scientific, numerical and statistical data. The system currently provides access to the U.S. [25 Feb 2004]
Gordon Brown outlines Budget
News Chancellor Gordon Brown has delivered his speech outlining preparations for next year's Budget. He claimed government targets of national growth of 2.25 per cent for the year are still on track. Cuts will be made on capital gains tax to make... [27 Nov 2001]
MoD IT - late and over budget
News A Ministry of Defence (MoD) programme to replace hundreds of IT systems with a single infrastructure is running more than a year late and is £182m over budget. A National Audit Office (NAO) report into the £7.1bn [04 Jul 2008]
Home Office admits three-quarters of its IT projects are late and over budget
News The Home Office is running 125 months late and £50m over budget on its combined IT projects. This latest admission of IT troubles highlights expensive delays in 13 out of 17 projects. The Liberal Democrat home affairs secretary, Simon Hughes... [11 Nov 1999]
BBC to take better care of web budget
News The BBC's independent regulator, the BBC Trust, has approved the corporation's plans to manage its website budget more effectively - but has not approved a request for an additional £39m of new investment over the next year. [22 Jul 2008]
Budget good for PC shoppers?
In today's budget speech, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said he wants to raise the tax-free limit on goods bought outside the European Union. UK shoppers could soon be given the green light to buy shiny new laptops or handfuls of iPods... [16 Mar 2005]
Minority of US CIOs upbeat about IT budget growth
News Just 44 per cent of US-based CIOs expect overall IT budget growth next year, according to the survey of 100 CIOs. Most chief information officers don't expect information technology budgets to grow next year, according to a survey released on... [19 Nov 2003]
A Budget for entrepreneurs?
Comment The UK government's 1999 Budget introduced changes in three key areas designed to help entrepreneurs: investment, research and development (R&D) and employee incentives. David Baxter, director of the Information Society Initiative, told Silicon... [19 Mar 1999]
Assessing the Budget Proposal Adopted by the Senate
White Paper This paper examines the budget proposal adopted by the Senate on March 17, 2005. Amendments adopted during Senate consideration of the budget somewhat softened the cuts in domestic programs proposed by the Budget Committee (although not as much as... [20 May 2005]
Federal Budget Estimating
White Paper The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 set up a process that allows the Congress to take the primary role in formulating the budget - a role that in previous years had been performed by the Administration. [29 Jun 2005]
How CBO Analyzed the Macroeconomic Effects of the President's Budget
White Paper This paper reviews how CBO translated the provisions of the President's budget into terms that could be used in the various economic models. The paper reviews how CBO treated several specific proposals that were particularly difficult to analyze. [07 Jul 2005]
Experts call for Budget incentives to boost investment
News UK chancellor Gordon Brown's March Budget needs to offer real measures to boost business for technology companies, according to the Technology Industry Group at consultancy, PricewaterhouseCoopers. The group has published a wish list of tax savings... [17 Feb 1999]
Multi-Donor Budget Support: Lessons From Ghana
White Paper But donors can also give what is known as budget support - where the money goes directly to government budgets to be spent on poverty-reducing measures. In Ghana, a number of donors have clubbed together to support the government's budget, under an... [20 May 2005]
