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| altLangPage: "https://conception.canada.ca/resumes-recherche/comptes-entreprises-resume-recherche.html" | ||
| date: 2019-02-04 | ||
| dateModified: 2019-02-05 | ||
| description: "Reviewed the most common reasons why self-employed Canadians and small Canadian businesses call the Canada Revenue Agency." | ||
| language: en | ||
| title: "CRA business registration and account maintenance" | ||
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| <p class="post-meta">February 4, 2019</p> | ||
| <p>This optimization project with Canada Revenue Agency started in late March of 2018. We reviewed the most common reasons why self-employed Canadians and small Canadian businesses call the <abbr title="Canada Revenue Agency">CRA</abbr>. We were looking for opportunities to make it much easier for these callers to find answers and resolve issues directly on Canada.ca. The long-term goal was to reduce the volume of telephone interactions in areas that could be better served online. This will let agents focus on answering the tougher questions.</p> | ||
| <p><abbr title="Canada Revenue Agency">CRA</abbr> Call Centre’s Strategic Planning and Operations Division did a lot of analysis to help identify the most common reasons for calls. They looked at data they gather regularly about call topics and frequency. They had also recently completed an in-depth study of business enquiries with front-line agents.</p> | ||
| <p>Together, we defined a set of potential task scenarios for testing. We then asked call centre agents and program area experts to validate, improve and narrow down these tasks using an online survey. This process left us with 8 task scenarios. We recruited 18 participants. They were all business students who did not have their own business number, and had never assisted a business with tax issues.</p> | ||
| <h2>Baseline testing results</h2> | ||
| <p>The baseline moderated task performance testing showed that, on average, the 18 participants found the right page 44% of the time. Out of a total of 142 task trials across the 8 task scenarios, participants succeeded at the tasks only 34% of the time.</p> | ||
| <h2>The design effort</h2> | ||
| <p>To develop an optimized prototype, designers and researchers from the <abbr title="Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat">TBS</abbr> Digital Transformation Office formed a multi-disciplinary team with the Canada Revenue Agency. The team included representatives from <abbr title="Canada Revenue Agency">CRA</abbr>’s user experience, web publishing, Business Information Systems, My Business Account, and <abbr title="Goods and Services Tax/Harmonized Sales Tax">GST/HST</abbr> programs.</p> | ||
| <p>Our interaction designers created the prototype in GitHub. We replicated the parts of the <abbr title="Canada Revenue Agency">CRA</abbr> website that we had tested. Through an intensive series of workshops, small-team discussions and individual team members analyzing video evidence from baseline testing, we made many updates and improvements to the prototype over a period of four weeks. At that point, the prototype was approved as ready for testing. If test results were positive, <abbr title="Canada Revenue Agency">CRA</abbr> would continue with the process to get it posted on Canada.ca.</p> | ||
| <h2>Validation testing results</h2> | ||
| <p>Success! Our target was to improve both findability and task success by a minimum of 20 percentage points, or to exceed 80% for both measures. In the validation round, 20 participants found the correct destination 84% of the time. That was an improvement of 40 percentage points, meeting both targets. Successful task completion increased by 38 percentage points, to a total of 72%</p> | ||
| <img class="img-responsive hidden-sm hidden-xs" alt="See table that follows for data." src="/research-summaries/images/business-account-task-success-chart.jpg"/> | ||
| <div class="row col-md-8"> | ||
| <details> | ||
| <summary>Task completion success rates – table</summary> | ||
| <p>Baseline measurement at start of project, validation on prototype redesigned by project team.</p> | ||
| <div class="table-bravo"> | ||
| <table class="table table-bordered"> | ||
| <thead> | ||
| <tr> | ||
| <th scope="col">Task</th> | ||
| <th scope="col">Baseline</th> | ||
| <th scope="col">Validation</th> | ||
| </tr> | ||
| </thead> | ||
| <tbody> | ||
| <tr> | ||
| <td>1. Do you need a <abbr title="Business Number">BN</abbr></td> | ||
| <td>28%</td> | ||
| <td>44%</td> | ||
| </tr> | ||
| <tr> | ||
| <td>2. Federal and Provincial <abbr title="Business Number">BN</abbr>s</td> | ||
| <td>44%</td> | ||
| <td>84%</td> | ||
| </tr> | ||
| <tr> | ||
| <td>3. Information to provide for <abbr title="Goods and Services Tax">GST</abbr> registration</td> | ||
| <td>22%</td> | ||
| <td>74%</td> | ||
| </tr> | ||
| <tr> | ||
| <td>4. <abbr title="Goods and Services Tax">GST</abbr> Registration</td> | ||
| <td>28%</td> | ||
| <td>83%</td> | ||
| </tr> | ||
| <tr> | ||
| <td>5. <abbr title="Business Number">BN</abbr> for export</td> | ||
| <td>47%</td> | ||
| <td>63%</td> | ||
| </tr> | ||
| <tr> | ||
| <td>6. Tax Center address for documents </td> | ||
| <td>18%</td> | ||
| <td>61%</td> | ||
| </tr> | ||
| <tr> | ||
| <td>7. Address change, via My Business Account </td> | ||
| <td>61%</td> | ||
| <td>95%</td> | ||
| </tr> | ||
| <tr> | ||
| <td>8. Keeping a <abbr title="Goods and Services Tax">GST</abbr> account active </td> | ||
| <td>22%</td> | ||
| <td>74%</td> | ||
| </tr> | ||
| </tbody> | ||
| </table> | ||
| </div> | ||
| </details> | ||
| </div> | ||
| <h2>How we improved</h2> | ||
| <h3>Improved scent of information</h3> | ||
| <p>We used keywords like “registration,” “tax,” “update,” and “changes” in labels and link descriptions on Business and Taxes theme pages, menus and topic pages.</p> | ||
| <h3>Better structuring of the information on several pages</h3> | ||
| <p>We brought related items together, and put answers under the steps and headings where people expected to find them. We reorganized, relabeled and restructured. We streamlined a three-page list into a single page.</p> | ||
| <h3>Reduced and simplified text</h3> | ||
| <p>We “front-loaded” labels by putting keywords at the beginning of titles, links and doormats. We also streamlined text, so that the information most relevant to the majority of people was presented first.</p> | ||
| <h3>Addition of a wizard</h3> | ||
| <p>To find a correct address, we built a simple wizard. It uses a set of questions and a postal code look-up to provide the precise answer for where to mail your business tax documents.</p> | ||
| <figure> <img class="img-responsive" alt="Before and after images of “Business number” pages for CRA business number registration." src="/research-summaries/images/before-after-BN.jpg" /> </figure> | ||
| <div class="col-md-8 row"> | ||
| <details> | ||
| <summary>Detailed description</summary> | ||
| <p>Two web pages are shown side by side. The page on the left is labelled “Baseline” and shows the “Business number” webpage which was missing the content that people expected to be on this page.</p> | ||
| <p>The page on the right is labelled “Validation” and shows the “Business number registration” page with the new topics. Arrows point to the new doormat links with the annotation “Leading with keywords.”</p> | ||
| </details> | ||
| </div> | ||
| <h2>Request the research</h2> | ||
| <p>If you’d like to see the research findings from this project, let us know. Email us at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.</p> | ||
| <h2>Let us know what you think</h2> | ||
| <p>Tweet using the hashtag #Canadadotca.</p> | ||
| <h2>Explore further </h2> | ||
| <ul> | ||
| <li><a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/businesses/topics/registering-your-business/business-registration-online-overview.html">See the updated Business Registration Online pages</a> based on the new designs in this project</li> | ||
| <li><a href="https://blog.canada.ca/2019/02/04/business-registration.html">Collaborating to make business registration easier for Canadian business owners</a>, a blog post by our optimization partner <abbr title="Canada Revenue Agency">CRA</abbr></li> | ||
| <li><a href="https://blog.canada.ca/pages/project-overview.html">Read overviews of other projects</a> with our partners</li> | ||
| </ul> |
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