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)
Baseline Surveys and Qualitative Research on Pensions with Individuals, Employers and the Financial Service Sector (ref 04-05.A2.15)
A Review of Research Evidence on Factors Influencing the Renovation of Business Premises in Disadvantaged Areas (ref 04-05.A4.9)
Sponsoring questions in ONS’ BERD Survey Booster Scheme for evaluation of R&D Tax Credits (ref 04-05.A4.3)
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)
Share Incentives Plan and Save as You Earn Survey of Employers and Employees (ref 04-05.A4.7, 05-06.A4.3)
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)
Small scale qualitative research to support the implementation of the review of Links with Large Business (ref 06-07.A3.6)
Customer experience of the simplified Main Tax Return pilot (ref 06-07.A10.9)
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)
Academic support for the Starter 204 evaluation (07-08.A1.4)
Methodological Review of Large Business - Phase 1 (07-08.A3.2)
Linking Family Resources Survey (FRS) data to tax credits administrative data (07-08.A5.1)
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)
Alcohol and tobacco cross border shopping estimates through sponsorship of questions in the International Passenger Survey (IPS) 2008 (07-08.A8.2)
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)
Feasibility study into the collection of customer perceptions of HMRC compliance interventions (07-08.A8.6)
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)
The impact of reforms to the tax and benefit system on incentives to save in private pensions (08-09.CAS.1)
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)
Qualitative research to identify the motivations behind late payment and reactions of different customer groups to payment or enforcement regimes (08-09.CS.7)
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)