IR35 costs UK Research and Innovation £36M – the same it spent funding tech projects Quango tax blunder follows similar payments from Defra and MoJ Science26 May 2023 | 26
Tech giants looking for ways to wriggle out of UK digital tax, watchdog warns Delays to OECD plan means interim fix could be found wanting Off-Prem05 Apr 2023 | 49
UK tax authority nudges net 'influencers': You may owe us for those OnlyFans feet pics Cue the dawning realization for thousands of content creators Offbeat20 Feb 2023 | 189
Software devs targeted as British tax authority makes fraud allegations Exclusive R&D tax relief campaign snares companies claiming in good faith Government Tech Week23 Jan 2023 | 75
UK govt launches multibillion procurement for tax agency application services First chunk of mega-frameworks go to market Applications11 Oct 2022 | 5
UK govt says contractors should challenge IR35 status via self-assessment What could possibly go wrong? On-Prem02 Sep 2022 | 38
How important are tech and other contractors to UK? PM candidate promises tax review if elected Liz Truss to go over IR35 off payroll tax as ruling party voters gear up to pick their leader Legal22 Aug 2022 | 63
UK government lines up billions to refresh legacy tech in 600-system tax dept Let's hope DALAS procurement is a tad more sensible than its soap opera namesake Systems16 Aug 2022 | 19
Hundreds of millions up for grabs as UK taxman set to stick with SAP ECC6.0 Updated Support for finance system ends in 2027, leaving questions for HMRC Databases19 Jul 2022 | 3
Accenture bags IT services contract for UK tax collector Updated Award timing reveals further slippage in HMRC's mega procurement plan On-Prem13 Jul 2022 | 7
Vital UK customs system outage contributes to travel chaos at its borders Updated Remember warning about hurried release to meet Brexit deadline? Never forget On-Prem08 Apr 2022 | 132
Fujitsu gets £250m extension on HMRC work dating back to 2017 Updated Questions linger over Technology Sourcing Programme as 2nd supplier in a week gets significant extension for historic contract On-Prem31 Mar 2022 | 7
Capgemini wins contract to look after legacy HMRC Aspire tech Updated ...8 years after role in controversial £10bn IT deal with UK tax authority was set to end Applications28 Mar 2022 | 10
Capgemini wins £30m deal to work on UK customs Delayed system 'vital component' of Brexit govt's enactment of the Northern Ireland Protocol On-Prem07 Mar 2022 | 17
HMRC: UK techies' IR35 tax appeals could take years Challenges to blanket bans on PSCs could face long road to redemption On-Prem22 Feb 2022 | 57
HMRC: Contractors, don't worry about IR35 reforms in private sector 'cos it all went so well in public sector Finds half of public-sector orgs determine contractors' IR35 tax status without outside help On-Prem09 Feb 2022 | 35
Court papers indicate text messages from HMRC's 60886 number could snoop on Brit taxpayers' locations Exclusive Bitter contract dispute revealed HLR lookup capability baked into agreement Security27 Jan 2022 | 70
SCC bags £91m deal after contract to support HMRC system initially set at £85m Take a hike Software26 Jan 2022 |
UK taxman breathes life into old relationship as Capgemini handed £51m deal extension French vendor joins fellow Aspire alumnus Fujitsu in winning contracts that extend beyond 2022 deadline On-Prem11 Jan 2022 | 11
Hauliers report problems with post-Brexit customs system but HMRC insists it is 'online and working as planned' Originally launched as 'minimum viable product', GVMS has the necessary upgrades, UK taxman says Applications05 Jan 2022 | 276
Questions over timetable slippage in UK taxman's £7bn 'cliff edge' IT procurement Watchdog says tenders to be published by September – but HMRC procurement show that's not going to plan On-Prem07 Dec 2021 | 2
Launched the year Netscape Navigator was born, the UK's CHIEF customs system finally has a retirement date Replacement in preparation for 10 years, but not quite ready to replicate legacy functionality On-Prem08 Nov 2021 | 16
Another UK government limb that can't get IR35 right: Court service pays taxman £12.5m Updated HMRC's 'fundamentally flawed' Check Employment Status Tool strikes again Legal23 Aug 2021 | 35
Taxpayers foot the bill: HMRC signs up Cognizant for £150m low-code, automation project Brit tax collection agency's IT estate contains 'significant risk' Software13 Aug 2021 | 2
Proposed amendments to UK Finance Bill target rogue umbrella companies ripping off contractors after IR35 Conservative MPs offer tweaks to stamp out suspect practices Legal21 May 2021 | 34
UK taxman plonks £23bn (sorry HMRC meant £23m) on the table, asks vendors: OK, so what can you do for us in terms of 'mobility services'? Updated Shuffling the pork barrel again Personal Tech15 Mar 2021 | 15
UK taxman is supposed to know how IR35 reforms work but still lost appeal against TV presenter Kaye Adams Observers say having multiple clients works in favour of techie contractors Legal22 Feb 2021 | 38
AWS tops up the Bezos rocket fund thanks to more money from Brit tax collection agency A 48-month, £41m hyperscale cloud service deal done with HMRC Off-Prem19 Feb 2021 | 8
Legacy IT kit is behind 80% of UK taxman's pandemic costs, says spending watchdog HMRC spent £53.2m maintaining creaky tech estate – report Systems22 Jan 2021 | 28
It may date back to 1994 but there's no end in sight for the UK's Chief customs system as Brexit rules beckon Software dinosaur will run alongside new CDS platform, says HMRC On-Prem24 Nov 2020 | 266
UK tax dept's IT savings created 'significant risk', technical debt as it faces difficult conversation with Chancellor Pry open that weird little red suitcase and give us a few quid, would you? On-Prem10 Nov 2020 | 67
UK taxman waves through £168.8m Fujitsu contract because no one else can hold up 30-year-old infrastructure What's another three years amid project delays and Brexit uncertainty? On-Prem13 Oct 2020 | 25
Brit tax collector HMRC wants fireside chat with suppliers to discuss ways to spend the annual £900m IT budget Prising open that pork barrel again? Nah, it's never been closed Channel30 Sep 2020 | 3
Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April Beta means fully operational? Haha! Good one! Software25 Sep 2020 | 191
BT reopens £90m UK High Court case over 1970s VAT 'overpayments' Couldn't have come at a better time with COVID-19 economic shutdown Networks30 Mar 2020 | 20
HMRC claims victory in another IR35 dispute to sting Nationwide contractor for nearly £75k in back taxes Tribunal rules that Robert Lee was 'part and parcel' of bank's ops for 7 years Legal05 Mar 2020 | 98
Review of IR35 is in: Quelle surprise, UK.gov will forge ahead with controversial tax reforms in the private sector Soz contractors Legal27 Feb 2020 | 87
Don't worry, IT contractors. New UK chancellor says HMRC will be gentle pushing IR35 rules But critics advise to take that with a 'pinch of salt' Legal24 Feb 2020 | 76
BAE Systems tosses its contractors a blanket... ban on off-payroll working under upcoming IR35 tax reforms 'As soon as I got the note saying I'm inside, I started chasing another role' Legal24 Feb 2020 | 133
What do we want? A proper review of IR35! When do we want it? Last year! Bunch of IT contractors protest outside UK Parliament Letter delivered to chancellor demanding tax reform be halted Legal13 Feb 2020 | 88
Fujitsu warns HMRC Projects team that 30% of them could be out of a job come April No jokes, just less work for them in the cloudy era On-Prem11 Feb 2020 | 25
Who says HMRC hasn't got a sense of humour? Er, 65 million Brits I missed my Self Assessment filing deadline because.... a rundown of the worst excuses Bootnotes17 Jan 2020 | 96
UK taxman updates its employment-checking calculator for IR35: Still crap, say contractors CEST la vie: Still pooh-poohs MoO. Reform just months away On-Prem25 Nov 2019 | 22
20% of UK businesses would rather axe their contractors than deal with IR35 – survey But firms will be forced to take a more measured response in time, says consultancy Legal14 Nov 2019 | 79
Helen Fospero makes yet another Brit telly presenter to win IR35 case against taxman Oh dear, HMRC – that's two defeats in a week On-Prem06 Nov 2019 | 36
IT contractor has £240k bill torn up after IR35 win against UK taxman HMRC vows to appeal Legal04 Nov 2019 | 131
UK taxman goes chief digi officer shopping at the bank: Appoints ex-Barclays CIO From the broken world of banking to the broken world of govt IT Legal01 Nov 2019 | 9
UK tech freelancer numbers down for first time in 5 years since IR35 tax reforms hit public sector Could drop further, depending on how zealously it's enforced Legal22 Oct 2019 | 54
Scariest thing about Halloween? HMRC and Defra systems still a risk to post-Brexit borders Breeding ground for fraud, smuggling and other criminal activity, say auditors Legal16 Oct 2019 | 22
Virtual inanity: Solution to Irish border requires data and tech not yet available, MPs told Also reliant on HMRC's shaky Customs Declaration Service Legal08 Oct 2019 | 221
HMRC 'disciplined' almost 100 employees for computer misuse over 24 months Updated Email, social media and telecomms kit abused at the tax collector Security01 Oct 2019 | 31
You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals, so let's watch for tech sales VAT weirdness through the channel Feature Ignorance is no defence, just ask HMRC Channel01 Oct 2019 | 18
HMRC chief digital wonk Jacky Wright takes flight back to Microsoft's light 'I am so proud of all that we have achieved in my two years' On-Prem26 Sep 2019 | 20
HMRC slaps Getronics with winding-up petition: It'll be sorted out today, blurts tech services firm Hurry up – nearly beer o' clock Channel25 Sep 2019 | 24
HMRC's HTTPS howler: Childcare payments site cert expired at 1am on Sunday, down for hours Updated Gov.uk portal finally lurched back to life after lunch Security23 Sep 2019 | 31
Industry reps told the UK taxman everything wrong with extending IR35. What happened next will astound you Don't like it? Take it to an employment tribunal! Legal15 Jul 2019 | 167
As HMRC's quarterly deadline for online VAT filing looms, biz dogged by 'technical difficulties' Has tax been made digital yet? Not quite, it would appear On-Prem08 Jul 2019 | 52
UK taxman spent six times more with AWS last year than cloud firm paid in corporation tax Updated Taxpayers taken for 'mugs' as UK.gov contract awards surface SaaS11 Jun 2019 | 96
UK taxman falls foul of GDPR, agrees to wipe 5 million voice recordings used to make biometric IDs Yes, yes, yes, we've told the ICO we are doing so, says HMRC Security03 May 2019 | 39
Loose Women woman's IR35 win deals another high-profile blow to UK taxman's grip on rules Freelance techies take note On-Prem16 Apr 2019 | 86
Who had 'one week in' for a Making Tax Digital c0ckup? Well done, you win... absolutely nothing Software vendors report UK VAT API returning spurious data, confusing users On-Prem10 Apr 2019 | 36
Sick of being the bad guy, UK taxman needs YOU(?) to help it be more 'customer-centric' HMRC seeks AI, voice, digital engagement bods as part of tech group's overhaul On-Prem09 Apr 2019 | 15