Activities currently funded by HMRC central research programme

  • Sponsorship of the Public Economics Working Group (ref 04-05.A1.1)
  • Wealth and Assets Survey (with ONS/DWP/BERR/CLG/Cabinet Office) (ref 04-05.A2.1 & 08-09.CAS.1)
  • English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) (with ONS/DWP/DoH/CLG/DEFRA/DfT) (ref 04-05.A2.9)
  • A Review of Research Evidence on Factors Influencing the Renovation of Business Premises in Disadvantaged Areas (ref 04-05.A4.9)
  • Qualitative research on construction workers Self Assessment (SA) Filing Behaviour (ref 04-05.A8.3)
  • Qualitative research on Attitudes to Tax Debt and Enforcement (ref 04-05.A8.2)
  • Evaluation of East London Pilot of HMRC support for small business (ref 04-05.A10.3)
  • Development of the NIESR Savings Model (ref 04-05.A2.6 & 05-06.A2.4)
  • Informal economy: incidence, extent and nature (ref 05-06.A8.2)
  • Develop model to estimate impact of reforms to corporate tax on capital gains (06-07A3.1)
  • Feasibility study into the collection of data on the informal economy (ref 06-07.A8.30)
  • Customer service survey – qualitative research into customer understanding of the PAYE coding notice and the SA Statement (ref 06-07.A10.34)
  • March 2007 in-year Customer Service Survey (ref 06-07.A10.36)
  • Qualitative research to explore reasons for low take up of Working Tax Credit among those without dependent children (ref 06-07.A5.40)
  • Qualitative study of tax credits claimants' experiences and views of a pilot process for making a new claim for tax credits following a household break-up (WF.07-08.A5.21)
  • Longitudinal Survey of Tax Credits and Child Benefit Claimants (WF.07-08.A5.23)
  • Qualitative study into the drivers of compliance behaviour (with a focus on errors) amongst small businesses who do not use agents (07-08.A8.4)
  • Annual Customer Service Survey (CSS) 2007 (07-08.A10.1)
  • Qualitative study to promote successful customer use of e-transactions, improve e-service quality and identify key customer satisfaction issues. (07-08.A10.3)
  • Contact Centre Customer Survey 2007-8 (WF.07-08A10.20)
  • Attitudes towards compliance (07-08.A8.3)
  • Development of HMRC's strategic Customer Survey (07-08.A10.5)
  • Qualitative study of claimants’ experiences of the Births and Full-Time Education Child Benefit and tax credits Alignment pilots (WF.07-08.A5.24)
  • Qualitative study of tax credits claimants’ experiences of receiving extra assistance when making a new claim for tax credits (WF.07-08.A5.25)
  • Research to explore tax credit claimants’ experience of the Reach Out Renewals Pilot Approach (WF.07-08.A5.29)
  • Research to explore the customer experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Groups with Tax credits and other HMRC products (WF.07-08.A5.30)
  • Qualitative investigation of the childcare element of Tax Credits (WF.07-08.A5.32)
  • Qualitative investigation of behavioural factors of disclosure from the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Scheme (OVD) (WF.07-08.A8.20)
  • HMRC Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model Development and Support (08-09.SAMAR.1)
  • A joint HMT/HMRC/OGD/ESRC funded tax policy and operations research centre (08-09.SAMAR.2)
  • A joint HMRC/OGD/ESRC funded medium to long-term programme of research on tax policy and operations (08-09.SAMAR.3)
  • Collaborative funding with the ESRC for two three-year PhD studentships (08-09.SAMAR.4)
  • Employment of an external econometrician (08-09.SAMAR.5)
  • IFS Research Consortium on Pensions (08-09.CAS.3)
  • Follow-up of Saving Gateway Second Pilot participants (WF.08-09.CAS.5)
  • Methodological review of research with Large Business customer population - Phase 2 (08-09.LBI.4)
  • Review of Links with Large Business – Evaluation (08-09.LBI.5)
  • Tax Tracker Survey: A quantitative survey of UK corporate buyers of tax advice (08-09.LBI.6)
  • The extent and nature of the use of computerised accounting by business to meet their VAT and Corporation Tax obligations (WF.08-09.EN.3)
  • Qualitative study of tax credits claimants’ experiences and views of the Health Check pilot (WF.08-09.CATRA.1)
  • Panel Survey of Tax Credits and Child Benefit Claimants (2008-11) (08-09.CATRA.6)
    Alcohol and tobacco cross border shopping estimates through sponsorship of questions in the International Passenger Survey (IPS) 2009 (08-09.CS.1)
  • Purchase of the Expenditure and Food Survey (EFS) dataset (08-09.CS.2)
  • Qualitative research to measure impact of openness and early dialogue (OED) approach to enquiry process (WF.08-09.CS.5)
  • Omnibus Survey: Smoking module - 2008-09 (08-09.CS.6)
  • Perceptions of HMRC Interventions: qualitative study (08-09.CS.9)
  • HMRC contributions to the General Household Survey (08-09.CS.13)
  • HMRC Customer Survey 2008-11 (08-09.CATRA.2)
  • HMRC Staff Survey Summer & Winter 2008 (08-09.CATRA.3)
  • Business usage of commercial and HMRC-provided software products (WF.08-09.CATRA.20)