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RSS tax creditNokia business phones get voice newbie
News The E50 will come in at €300 without tax or subsidies. Photo credit: Nokia Nokia has unveiled an addition to its E series of business devices, launched last year. The newbie, the E50, is a cheap, voice-centric device, with or without a camera. [18 May 2006]
Organised crime 'will attack ID cards database'
News Last year it was revealed that the identities of 13,000 civil servants had been stolen and used by criminals to make fake tax credit claims. Organised crime will try and crack the identity cards database - the National Identity Register (NIR) - the... [17 May 2006]
MPs slam EDS compensation deal with taxman
News EDS last year agreed to pay HMRC £71.25m in compensation after serious problems with the tax credit computer system led directly to gross losses of £209m for the department. A new NAO report on the continuing problems with the tax credits system... [25 Apr 2006]
Will Zopa's P2P loans mean the death of the bank manager?
Comment Or keep the amount set against my mortgage, where it's like getting six per cent or so tax free. The idea is that you get credit scored (they use Equifax) and then - if you are a lender - put in an offer to lend a certain amount, over a certain... [18 Apr 2006]
Photos: MOT database targets illegal cars
Photo Instead when the owner applies for Road Tax, the Post Office will automatically check the database to confirm the vehicle has a current MOT. Photo credit: Siemens Business Services Photo credit: Siemens Business Services [07 Apr 2006]
Brown scraps Home Computing tax breaks
News In an otherwise poor budget for the IT industry, Brown relaxed the R&D tax credit threshold for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). He raised the headcount threshold for the size of business eligible for the SME R&D tax credit from 250 to... [22 Mar 2006]
Opinion: What a year it's been for e-crime
Comment Among them was the tax credit fraud fiasco that resulted from the theft of the identities and personal details of almost 13,000 staff at the Department for Work and Pensions and Network Rail. Most recently we've seen large international banks and... [15 Mar 2006]
McAfee staff face ID theft as auditor loses data
News Deloitte and Touche USA is a multibillion-dollar company that provides audit, tax, consulting and financial services. We have no reason to believe that any of the information has been accessed, and we are proactively protecting McAfee current and... [24 Feb 2006]
Federated identity 'can transform e-government'
News He said: "I have personally submitted my tax returns online and the process of getting a username and password was rigorous and intensive and I would support the same 'identity' being available for me to access other services. [22 Feb 2006]
Tax credit ID theft to be probed by Info Commissioner
News The UK's data protection watchdog has launched an investigation into the tax credit fraud fiasco that resulted from the theft of the identities and personal details of almost 13,000 staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Network... [24 Jan 2006]
Tax credit fiasco: 8,800 identities stolen
News Of the remaining 2,700 claims where tax credit payments were made into multiple bank accounts using the stolen identities, payments were suspended immediately they were discovered, and all payments were suspended by 16 December 2005. [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 figures have revealed. [16 Jan 2006]
'Great iPod giveaway better idea than ID cards'
News The government has been facing mounting pressure to combat online fraud after it emerged in December last year that the tax credit website had been hit by more than £30m of fraudulent claims. A senior manager in the UK Department of Trade and... [13 Jan 2006]
Re:Viewing 2005: The year in public sector IT
News Also in June, the Inland Revenue was threatening to drag EDS through the courts unless compensation was forthcoming over the problems with the new tax credit IT system, which led to overpayments to 455,000 households. [19 Dec 2005]
Thousands hit by tax credit ID fraud
News The government has been accused of trying to hush up the true scale of tax credit ID fraud with details now emerging that thousands of benefits staff at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) have had their details stolen and used by criminals... [14 Dec 2005]
