HMRC

Good news: HMRC offers a Linux version of Basic PAYE Tools. Bad news: It broke

Updated Python 2 has been dead for four years

Applications26 Mar 2024 | 105

Fujitsu's 30-year-old UK customs system just keeps hanging on

After declaring the end of CHIEF at least five times in as many years, HMRC hopes this June 2024 date will stick

Public Sector25 Mar 2024 | 12

UK tax agency's digital services not good enough to take strain off phone lines

Watchdog says taxpayer assistance is getting worse

Public Sector01 Mar 2024 | 28

HMRC launches £500M procurement for new ERP, though project's already a 'red' risk

Rivals will need to dislodge incumbent SAP in competition for 5-year deal across three departments

Databases19 Dec 2023 | 16

Taxing times: UK missed out on £1.75B because of digitization delays

Public Accounts Committee slams progress and questions plans

Public Sector24 Nov 2023 | 25

UK government awards chunk of mega-billions tech framework

Exclusive Deal for tax collector’s legacy application services goes to troupe of suppliers including Accenture, Capgemini and IBM

Applications13 Sep 2023 | 10

Kyndryl bags short-lived HMRC mainframe contract

Tax collector's DALAS waits in wings to tackle humongous legacy estate

On-Prem08 Sep 2023 | 15

Digital revolution at HMRC left 99,000 UK taxpayers on hold over five-day fiasco

Technology resilience gets red rating in tax collector's annual report

On-Prem25 Jul 2023 | 17

UK government faces calls to end IR35 double tax anomaly

Meanwhile, Conservative stalwart calls to repeal law

Legal17 Jul 2023 | 47

Multi-tasking blunder leaves UK tax digitization plans 3 years late, 5 times over budget

Public spending watchdog says scale of task was massively underestimated

Software13 Jun 2023 | 44

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 | 190

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 | 76

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 | 58

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