HMRC

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

HMRC accused of not understanding its own IR35 tax reforms ahead of private sector rollout

MPs also voice concerns about accuracy of status-check tool

Legal08 Apr 2019 | 74

Go on, feast your eyes on... HMRC's backend: 4,000 IT staff, its hookup with AWS and more

OpenInfra Days UK 2019 UK taxman's digital boss talks living with Amazon

SaaS02 Apr 2019 | 29

UK taxman plans to, er, Crown Hosting boss. Who'll take £115k to be its champion in HMRC?

Seeks willing body to 'take services live' plus another senior type for networks role

Legal01 Apr 2019 | 9