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RSS HMRCTax office CIO gets 20 per cent pay rise
News HMRC's CIO Steve Lamey joined the department on a four-year contract on 18 October 2004 in the civil service pay band £200,000 to £205,000 a year, and in his first six months to the end of that financial year he took... [15 Aug 2006]
Taxman's IT bill could rocket to £6bn
News The total cost of HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC) IT contract with Capgemini could more than double to over £6bn instead of the originally projected £3bn, government auditors have warned. The 10-year £3bn Aspire contract... [18 Jul 2006]
MPs slam EDS compensation deal with taxman
News MPs have called for the government to ban IT suppliers from insisting on confidentiality clauses in contracts, following a controversial compensation settlement between HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and IT services company... [24 Apr 2006]
Seven arrested in £43m money launder swoop
News A director and an ex-employee of an unnamed money bureau in East London are among the suspects arrested after an investigation which began when HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) seized around £1m that had been put through... [07 Apr 2006]
Revenue and Customs merge IT contracts
News HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has integrated the two separate IT contracts that were in place before the merger of the Customs & Excise and Inland Revenue departments last year. Under the new arrangement Capgemini will... [06 Apr 2006]
Taxman to invest £340m expanding e-services
News HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is to invest £340m in upgrading its online infrastructure as part of a push to universal electronic filing of tax returns by 2012. The plans form part of the recommendations made in Lord... [23 Mar 2006]
Taxman credits IT upgrade for online filing success
News Nearly two million taxpayers filed their self assessment returns online by the 31 January deadline - a 38 per cent increase on last year, according to figures from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). The HMRC... [03 Feb 2006]
Government ID fraud claims - are they all they seem?
News Missing trader VAT fraud totalling £215m a year at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has also been included in the grand total by the Home Office. But a HMRC spokeswoman told silicon.com that the figure was... [02 Feb 2006]
Tax credit ID theft to be probed by Info Commissioner
News Although HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) claims to have stopped many of the fraudulent claims before any money was paid, it admits to losing £2.7m from those that slipped through the net. HMRC executive... [24 Jan 2006]
Tax credit fiasco: 8,800 identities stolen
News Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was forced to close down the tax credits website at the start of December last year, after a spate of fraudulent claims came to light which exploited the stolen identities of... [19 Jan 2006]
Criminals make 20,000 false tax credit claims
News More than half of the 40,000 suspicious tax credit applications detected by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) during a six-month period last year are believed to have been made by organised criminal gangs, new government... [16 Jan 2006]
Taxman admits to "virulent" mass ID fraud
News HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) executive director David Varney told MPs at a Public Accounts Committee meeting this week that the online tax credits claim service had been targeted by "virulent" organised criminal gangs... [16 Dec 2005]
File tax return early to beat "heavy web traffic"
News Roy Massingale, director of self assessment at HMRC, said in a statement: "To avoid heavy web traffic as we approach the 31 January deadline we encourage people to get in early and not be part of a last-minute rush. [15 Dec 2005]
£30m ID fraud takes down tax credit website
News HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was warned about the flaw over six months ago but only closed the tax credit portal down last week after it discovered criminals had used the identities of 1,500 civil servants at the... [05 Dec 2005]
1,500 civil servants victims of tax credit ID theft
News HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has been forced to close the tax credit e-portal down while it develops new checks to ensure the system is secure. The fraud came to light during compliance checks by HMRC... [02 Dec 2005]
