With the electronic regime to be expanded soon to encompass many individuals and small firms, the department releases details of how people can be exempt on health or religious grounds […]| PublicTechnology
Citizens using the likes of Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB and Tether north of the border could soon be provided with far greater clarity, under proposed legislation put forward by Holyrood ministers […]| PublicTechnology
Reading Time: 4minutesDisponible en français. This HillNote compares Canada’s productivity performance with that of other Group of Seven (G7) countries and Australia, which has a resource-rich economy that is similar to Canada’s. The HillNote is the second in a four-part series on... Read More › The post What Is Canada’s Productivity Performance and How Does It Compare to Other Countries? appeared first on HillNotes.| HillNotes
The newly appointed exchequer secretary and chair of the HMRC board told the department’s external stakeholders that he will cooperate with them in delivering new digital services and infrastructure upgrades By the end of this decade, HM Revenue and Customs “will be an agile department, with| PublicTechnology
Department alerts tech suppliers to its plans to proceed with early planning and exploratory stages of the delivery of a system that will unite information from a range of sources HM Treasury is proceeding with plans to implement a major new government data platform intended to drive minister| PublicTechnology
Populism is increasing around the world, driven by public frustration with inequality, weak institutions and unfulfilled democratic promises.| Fair Observer
Thanks to rising prices and cost-of-living crisis, right-wing populists have broken through in the election for the upper house of the Japanese parliament.| Fair Observer
On July 4, 2025, US President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which extends the 2017 tax cuts and overhauls Opportunity Zones.| Fair Observer
Given the growing frequency and intensity of severe weather events around the world, like hurricanes, wildfires, floods and violent storms, households have had to make increasingly costly home insurance claims. Canada has not been spared; it even saw a record year for damages in 2024, caused particularly by flooding in Quebec and Ontario, and by wildfires and a hailstorm in Alberta. Consequently, insurers in Canada and abroad have raised premiums, tightened underwriting standards or withdrawn...| HillNotes
This HillStudy consists of a series of questions and answers intended to provide a better understanding of economic statistics and federal government finances.| HillNotes
Leaders provide MPs with details of losses, including clarification that incident is not a cyber breach of the department, but rather a widespread phishing exercise perpetrated on thousands of individuals HM Revenue and Customs incurred losses of £47m as a result of cybercriminals gaining acc| PublicTechnology
This HillNote is the first in a series of four publications about productivity. The second in the series presents Canada’s productivity performance compared to other advanced economies. The third analyzes the main potential causes of Canada’s relatively low productivity growth, and the fourth analyzes the principal potential solutions.| HillNotes
One of Parliament’s fundamental roles is to review and approve the government’s taxation and spending plans. To fulfill this role, parliamentarians follow the parliamentary financial cycle, which consists of a continuous loop of activities that take place throughout the calendar year. Because the federal government’s fiscal year begins on 1 April and ends on 31 March, activities that take place during a single calendar year may relate to different fiscal years.| HillNotes
Domestically, discussions about Canada’s defence spending are generally focused on the Department of National Defence (DND), including the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).However, in reporting their defence spending to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, or the Alliance), Canada and other NATO member states can also include expenditures relating to other departments and agencies.Moreover, calculations of defence spending as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) vary, depending ...| HillNotes
On 21 May, field data collection began for South Sudan’s National Population Estimation Survey (PES), an important milestone in the country’s effort to collect baseline demographic and socioeconomic data. Der Beitrag South Sudan’s microcensus marks an important first step in campaign to leave no one behind erschien zuerst auf GRID3.| GRID3
GRID3’s support across various African borders enabled over a million US dollars in savings for Liberia's government in a recent purchase of high-resolution satellite imagery. These funds can now be used to make other critical investments that modernise Liberia's geospatial capabilities for census and national population data systems. Der Beitrag Liberia saves big on satellite imagery with the support of GRID3 erschien zuerst auf GRID3.| GRID3
The first joint meeting of the GRID3 Nigeria National Steering and Technical Committees took place on Monday, February 10th, at the Federal Ministry of Finance headquarters in Abuja. The meeting was convened by the Chair of the Steering Committee, Mrs. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, who is the Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning. Der Beitrag GRID3 Nigeria National Steering and Technical Committees agree on project goals during first joint meeting erschien zuerst auf GRID3.| GRID3
The purpose of Canada’s retirement income system is twofold: to alleviate poverty among seniors and to help seniors who are better off to avoid significant declines in living standards when they retire. This HillStudy outlines the different components of the system, who they target, how much they cost and how they are financed. While there is general agreement that the retirement income system is a policy success story, a broader discussion of how well the system is meeting its objectives t...| HillNotes
A rental housing co-operative (co-op) is a non-profit corporation in which each member-resident owns one share. A form of community housing, rental co-ops are democratically governed by their members, who may also participate in management and operational functions. Shares do not appreciate and cannot be sold, and rents are generally set to break even with operating costs such that no profit accumulates. Any surpluses are saved in a reserve fund. Canada’s rental co-ops follow a non-equity m...| HillNotes
After publicly unveiling – and then swiftly revoking – plans to significantly scale back its telephone services, HM Revenue and Customs needs to recruit additional personnel, according to permanent secretary Jim Harra The head of HM Revenue and Customs has said the department has been tasked| PublicTechnology
The federal budget outlines the government’s revenue estimates and expenditure priorities for the fiscal year. It is a key component of the parliamentary financial cycle. The outlook for budgetary revenues and expenses can be found in tables A1.6 and A1.7 of Budget 2024.| HillNotes
