Quality New Mexico has announced its Performance Excellence awards for 2015.

Organizations open to feedback on their performance submit a self-assessment for an in-depth review, and receive a site visit and written feedback from volunteer examiners. Quality New Mexico’s process is based on the Baldrige Framework for Performance Excellence.

The Inland Revenue’s new tax service software has brought the forecast cost of the project to below $1 billion.

The software installation will also come online before its due date.

It is the backbone for an overhaul of the IRD’s ageing information technology infrastructure and a customer focused update to its processes.

FastDS® was implemented in Tennessee in February 2015.

“Huff-Paz credits a new streamlined program that went live earlier this year as being the driving force for the reduction in wait times. She says now that the agency and its employees have figured out the ins and outs of the system the hope is that they’ll be able to get people in and out even quicker.”

The Initial Rollout in Malaysia was in May of 2013. GST went live in April of 2015.

“The Goods and Services Tax (GST) has proven to be the saviour of Malaysia’s economy even though there are claims it burdens the people, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

He said GST revenue could cover the shortfall in government income as a result of the drop in world crude oil prices.”

Efforts are underway to take the political heat out of Inland Revenue’s $1 billion-plus Business Transformation project.

Inland Revenue deputy commissioner of change Greg James said he had received approval to brief Labour and other opposition parties on the progress of the project.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) team is currently on the island for the ninth quarterly review of the Jamaican economy under the extended fund facility.