It applies to millions upon millions of payments of dividends and interest as well as the whole field of pay-as-you-earn.
It is 21 years ago since computerisation of pay-as-you-earn was first decided upon.
People fill in tax returns, or are taxed using pay-as-you-earn, and necessary adjustments are made at the end of the year.
The staff working on the new computerised pay-as-you-earn system trace national insurance numbers from the information recorded on control cards.
This will be considered at the same time as the proposal for a non-cumulative system of pay-as-you-earn.
They have a wholly imaginary concept of the reaction of the ordinary worker to the pay-as-you-earn system.
There is to be a massive intervention in pay-as-you-earn.
The question is whether the terms can be arranged; whether pay-as-you-earn would produce the orders.
