Uk tax return outsourcing

London: Britain is contemplating the idea of outsourcing the process of self-assessment tax returns and other sensitive information to India and effect a saving of £200 million, a magazine claimed on Wednesday. Her majesty’s revenue and customs work is already outsourced under a long term contract, which is worth about £8.5 billion. Parisheadquartered firm Capgemini handles self-assessment tax returns and paye forms for about 30 million people. The company also deals with details of national insurance contributions for nearly everyone in Britain. The latest issue of Computer Weekly claimed that Capgemini, together with another contractor Fujitsu, is examining whether to send tax processing offshore, possibly to India.

The magazine said an internal memo on the contract to staff from the public and commercial services union claimed that the companies were looking at the “potential offshoring of some future work, possibly to the subcontinent.” A report on the plan is due to be produced next month. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, the memo said: “HMRC has asked Capgemini to draw up proposals outlining how they could contribute to the demands for better value.” Capgemini has been expanding its operations in India, where it has 18,000 of its 92,000 employees. The company has offices in Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata and Mumbai. AGENCIES

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Next IT/ITES destination for companies during recession time

Recently Chief minister of karnataka Mr.B.S.yeddyurappa has inaugurated Rural BPO concept in Karnataka. This is an indication that there is a need to spread the benefits of IT/ITES to rural folks which will not only avoid rural educated youths migrated to Cities creating number of problems in main city like Bangalore.

Karnataka government has opened a BPO centre in this historical town near Mysore, claiming to be the first ever rural BPO centre in the country.Through opening such BPO centres, which would provide a host of utility services across the state, the government was planning to create one lakh jobs over the next five years, Karnataka Minister for IT-BT Katta Subramanya Naidu said.The state has set apart Rs 40 crore to start 100 BPO centres during this year, he said, and added that they will soon unveil new policies on IT, hardware and semi-conductor

Bangalore is over populated and there is a need to spread the concentration of IT/BPO companies to Tier-2 and tier 3 cities which will help in overall development of any state.
Take an example in Bangalore where in one who is working for IT/ITES companies are wasting minimum of 4-5 hours of their productive time in travel which has created havoc on roads of Bangalore. One cannot reach in time,none of the roads are free, Highest road accidents death,highest pollution level in the city.

Even for the companies it has become tuff during this recession time to manage the company by paying huge rent,huge salary to it's employee who in turn will need more money to lead their life in this costly city of Bangalore.

Bangalore no more can handle any addition of traffic and rental value is no more affordable and there is no value for money. Every where one can find traffic jam. I happen to visit Mysore and could able to find it as the best alternative for Bangalore.

It is also known as retired person's paradise. This city is well planned and build as per master plan of Sri.Sir.M.Vishewaraiah then Dewan of Mysore kingdom. Mysore was at one point of time was a capital city of karnataka.
One can find number of top Engineering,Medical and other management colleges in Mysore. Mysore university established in the year 1916 was one of the oldest university and education level maintained by this university is of top class.
There is no traffic congestion unlike Bangalore. It is well connected with state highway to Bangalore and very soon Mysore will be equipped with airport. What else an IT / BPO company will look for ? This is an alternative for Bangalore to develop as IT/ITES destination. There are companies in Mysore like Infosys,software paradigm,HTMT,Wipro etc.. which are running operation successfully in Mysore city.In Mysore one can just have travel distance time to reach any place not the traffic jam waiting time unlike in Bangalore. Mysore is well equipped with class one Internet service providers like Tata communication,Bharathi Airtel ltd. which will be a boon for the growth of IT/ITES companies in Mysore.As a matter of fact one can commute to Mysore in the time which they spend to commute from their home in Bangalore to their work place.

Some of the facts about Mysore next IT/ITES destination:

Mysore located at a distance of 135 Kms from Bengalooru is the second biggest city in State of Karnataka covering an area of 128 sq. kms. It is located at 770 m above sea level between 12.18° N and 76.42° E.Mysore is and has been the historical capital of the Wodeyars. The city is known for its palaces and proximityto several other places of interest like Srirangapatna, Sivasamudram Falls, and Krishna Raja Sagara Dam.Mysore, the cultural capital of the State, has many educational, commercial, administrative centres andheritage monuments. It was the home for many great musicians, music composers, dancers and Sanskritscholars. Mysore is famous for its celebration of the ten day Navaratri (Dasara) festival held every year

Mysore is one of the Tier II cities for IT & ITES along with Mangalore, Hubli - Dharwadand Belgaum.Due to aggressive promotion by StateGovt. of Karnataka, Mysore isfast catching up as the next IT Destination. Infosys has already set up its training center on a 350 Acre plotand a lot of other Major IT companies are establishing their Development Centers.

Mysore is the second biggest city in the state of Karnataka covering an area of 128 sq. kms. It is situated at140 kms from Bangalore and is well connected by rail and road to all parts of the country. In order to improve

Ring roads The road network of the city includes three ring roads viz. outer ring road, intermediate ring road and inner ring road and also arterials roads, sub arterial roads, collector roads and others. The three ring roads not only collect traffic from other roads but also act as by-pass roads at their respective locations in order to avoid congestion especially at the core of the city.

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