record+keeping,+tax+collection,+policy+implementation


 * Government Administration**
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**Record Keeping** Governments collect records and keep them for legal purposes such as birth/death records, health records, criminal records, tax records, credit records, employment records ect.

Records can be electronic or written.

Written Records: They are hard to manage as they have to be maually organized and written up. This can be time consuming for the people looking for a specific type of record as for those writting them up as they become demotivated and can easily forget to fill something in or write something in the wrong place.

Electronic Records: They are much easier to use and can be typed up faster. When the records are being searched they can be found much faster in the database. The problem however is that anyone can tamper with the data and no one would know its been changed, where as if it was written up it would show. The records have to be accessed on the computer, so if something goes wrong and the computer breaks down it would be a problem however the fact that it is still available in the system it can be accessed anywhere in the world unless they are put on a software that can expire after a period of time.

Examples for Electronic records vs. Written records Haiti earthquake damaged many areas, one of which was a hospital that had all the records of patients, and because they are not very developed all the records were written than typed so they lost everything. If they had all the records on a database they would have been able to access it from another area.

|| An Australian record keeping booklet ||
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Tax Collection A tax is an enforced price on a certain product/ good for the betterment/ support of the government. There are many types of taxes. Some include: property, income, poll, sales, and retirement tax.

Tax collection is the act of actually collecting taxes from citizens for the government. This is usually done by a governmental agency such as the International Revenue Service (IRS) in the United States or Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in the UK. When taxes are not paid for however, fines, forfeiture, or even jail time can occur.

Yet, there are still some issues that arise with government taxation. First of all, people can lie about whether they paid for their taxes or not and even change the amount they owe! Another problem is that the government may accidentally charge people with the wrong amount or tax or even charge them for the wrong tax altogether!  Government Administration - Zeina Al-Idelbi <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: #e7115f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Record Keeping <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Record keeping is the practice of identifying, classing, archiving, preserving, and even destroying records. Governments collect records for legal purposes – birth/ death, h <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">ealth, criminal, tax, credit, employment, etc

These records can be either written or electronic - <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Written are a bit harder to deal with due to everything being done manually however the electronic records have some concerns, they can be tampered with and even accessed by unauthorized personnel, and you need a computer and specific software to access them <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: #e7115f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tax Collection <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">What is tax? tax is an enforced price on a certain product, support of the government. There are many types of taxes. Some include: property, income, sales, and retirement tax. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tax collection is the act of actually collecting taxes from citizens for the government. This is usually done by a governmental agency such as the International Revenue Service (IRS) in the United States. When taxes are not paid for fines, or even jail time can occur. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: #e7115f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Policy Implementation <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Policy implementation refers to the process of carrying out of the authoritative decisions of Congress, the president and the courts. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: #e7115f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Advantages
 * Electronic recordkeeping is faster and easier
 * Easier to retrieve records
 * Taxes help support the government
 * People try to pay their taxes so that they do not have to pay or go to jail
 * Keep track of people's records and whether or not they have paid their taxes

Disadvantages
 * Electronics can result in identity theft, being wrongly accessed, or tampered with
 * The software for recordkeeping may expire or need updating
 * Records (electronic) cannot be accessed without a computer People can ‘cheat’ the tax system
 * People from tax collection organizations get a lot of complaints from the public and are perceived as ‘evil’

Social & Ethical Issues
 * Reliability
 * Integrity of data
 * Privacy
 * Security

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