The Taxpayers' Alliance has called on Britain to follow the USA's lead and publish details of government spending on the internet.
Details of public spending should be freely available online so taxpayers can see what their money is being spent on, it has been claimed.
According to group the Taxpayers' Alliance - which campaigns for lower taxes - Britain should use an American government website as an example. The site, which provides details of the US government's contracts, is an example of "Google government", according to Taxpayers' Alliance campaign director Mark Wallace.
"This is extremely illuminating for people and gives them the right to say whether or not they agree with how their money is being spent," he said. "Encouragingly, last week Windsor and Maidenhead became the first council to put their entire expenditure online for every amount they spend over £500."
However, Mr Wallace was less happy with HM Revenue & Custom's (HMRC) attempts to bring tax submissions online. While the internet "should be a medium that makes things simpler", he claimed that the online submission process had instead "made things more stressful".
Despite this claim, HMRC revealed last month that two-thirds of all self-assessment tax returns were filed on the internet this year, amounting to around 5.75 million people - an increase of 50 percent over the 2008 total.
