E-government challenges at the UK's customs and tax department

Electronic Government

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 86-103

  Mousa, Rania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Challenges; E government; Electronic reporting; Extensible Business Reporting Language; HM Revenue and Customs; HMRC; Tax; UK; XBRL

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872119840     PISSN: 17407494     EISSN: 17407508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EG.2013.051277     Document Type: Article

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