The New Zealand Government has announced to reform the Inland Revenue Department which intended to make it easier and less costly to taxpayers’. The first things of changes need to improvements of processes, skills and capabilities, and information technology. The intention is to describe the scale and difficulty of the project, and deliver details about the proposed reform process.
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