HMRC
RSS HMRCCIO Job Report: Movers and shakers
News As member of the board, the 2007 CNET Networks UK Technology Awards CIO of the Year will contribute to the HMRC's strategic leadership. The HMRC is in the market for a new CIO. Let silicon.com keep you... [27 Jan 2009]
Taxman hunts for new CIO for £1bn IT dept
News HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is now advertising the £180,000 per year position, heading up 1,400 staff and a budget of £1bn in one of the largest IT departments in Europe. According to the HMRC's latest... [13 Jan 2009]
HMRC: Data lockdown complete by 2011
News HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has promised to have the recommendations of the Poynter Review implemented within the next two years. The review was designed to prevent another data debacle like the one that saw... [08 Jan 2009]
Are you talking to the real taxman?
News HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) warned that fraudsters are flooding the UK with emails pretending to be from the taxman in the run up to the 31 January deadline for filing tax returns online. HMRC said it... [08 Jan 2009]
£71m clawed back from IT tax credits chaos
News In a settlement first announced in 2005, EDS agreed to pay £71.25m to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) over problems with the tax credit computer system it designed.silicon.com Financial Services Difficulties with the system... [06 Jan 2009]
Former Tesco CIO joins HMRC
News HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has snapped up former Tesco CIO Colin Cobain as a non-executive director. Cobain, who stepped down from Tesco in 2007 after six years with the retail giant, will sit on the... [06 Jan 2009]
Web traders targeted in £2bn tax dodge crackdown
News The Department [HMRC] should devise similar schemes in other risk areas such as the home repair and improvement sector and buy-to-let landlords. Dave Hartnett, acting chairman of HMRC, told the PAC:... [09 Dec 2008]
'You don't really want to do that...'
News The government has come clean about how it will avoid future security breaches similar to the HMRC's loss of 25 million people's details. Brian Collins, chief scientific adviser to the Department for Transport and the... [01 Dec 2008]
More data breaches to come, warns gov't
News One year on from the HMRC's loss of 25 million people's personal data, a chief information security expert at Whitehall has warned there will be more high profile government data breaches to come. In the wake of the... [27 Nov 2008]
CEOs told - take responsibility for 'toxic' data
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) also revealed it is currently investigating 30 serious cases of data breaches and has received 277 reported breaches since the HMRC's loss of the personal details of around 25... [29 Oct 2008]
Lost data total nears 30 million records
News December 2007: HMRC follows its massive data November breach with the news that a data cartridge with details on 6,500 pensioners got lost in transit that September. November 2007: In what amounts to one of the most... [30 Sep 2008]
Legal Eye: Who's to blame for data loss?
Comment In 2007 an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission into the loss of child benefit records by HMRC revealed failures in institutional practices and procedures concerning the handling of personal... [17 Sep 2008]
Watchdog demands data breach confessions
News The issue of public data loss shot into the public eye late last year with the HMRC's loss of 25 million people's details on two CDs, which sparked a host of revelations about missing data in government and business -... [01 Sep 2008]
RedPrairie Case Study: InBond
White Paper The company needed an automated warehouse management solution that would enable it to operate a multi-customer, real-time environment while incorporating duty management and compliance with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)... [04 Aug 2008]
PAYE system not ready for rollout
News HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) postponed the PAYE system because of uncertainty over whether it was ready to oversee the collection of taxes from about 31 million people.silicon.com Public Sector One of the key findings of... [21 Jul 2008]
