What are public attitudes to HMRC taking opportunities to collect and use data that could help improve wider policy and service delivery for citizens and businesses rather than only for a specific purpose?

Background

The use of digital technology to deliver government administration and public services generates useful data and analytics as well as opportunities to capitalise on artificial intelligence. Increasingly complex data flows within and across organisations have made data privacy and trustworthy management of data all the more important. Whilst existing data protection legal frameworks regulate the collection and use of personal data, there are other ethical and technical considerations on data collection and sharing in the tax system that are worth exploring.

Next steps

Get in touch with ari.mailbox@hmrc.gov.uk

Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

HMRC Areas of Research Interest 2024

Topics

No topics assigned yet

Research fields

No research fields assigned yet

Related UKRI funded projects


  • Doing ESRC data better

    Combining three project stages and a mixed methods approach, we will conduct a robust review of the current ESRC policy and research, policy and legal landscape, solicit views from interested parties and construct an evi...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    Partially relevant as it focuses on updating ESRC data policy, not specifically on public attitudes towards HMRC data use.

  • Administrative Data Service

    Access to administrative data for research purposes is a positive public good. The ability to use these records - collected in the course of normal business by governmental and other bodies - and to link them with each o...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    Fully relevant as it addresses the use of administrative data for research purposes, including evaluating public policies such as tax structures.