The Red Tape Assessment – A Way to Simplify Administration

This chapter outlines the methodology for the Red Tape Assessment which is adapted from the Standard Cost Model. This is an accounting methodology used to build up a proxy for the costs of administrative burden (principally information obligations) imposed by regulation based on the time that it takes “a normally efficient business”. This is then applied across the population of the business sector to which it applies. The outcomes can then be compared across countries to identify the relative burdens and opportunities for simplifying and reducing the administrative burdens in each country.