tax credits
RSS tax creditsMega banking migration programme "a success"
News The organisation processes 90 per cent of all UK salaries and government payments, including benefit and Inland Revenue tax credits. Nine out of 10 customers are happy with the way one of the biggest... [15 May 2006]
MPs slam EDS compensation deal with taxman
News A new NAO report on the continuing problems with the tax credits system out this week has criticised the deal as an "unwelcome arrangement" and said there is no guarantee EDS will win sufficient business... [25 Apr 2006]
CIO Jury: Has Blair been good for IT?
News The verdict comes in the same week that Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown delivered his 10th Budget, in which he took away with one hand - by controversially scrapping the tax breaks for Home Computing schemes -... [23 Mar 2006]
Give us a greener Budget, Chancellor told
News Among the recommendations Barrington suggests are tax credits for companies that are able to get more staff working remotely, thus cutting out unnecessary travel and carbon dioxide emissions. The IT... [21 Mar 2006]
Opinion: What good has technology done?
Comment We have higher taxes to pay for local and central services, which in the case of the Child Support Agency or the Tax Credits system, squander huge amounts of public money on wasteful, ill-conceived... [20 Feb 2006]
Taxman credits IT upgrade for online filing success
News Tax chiefs have praised an IT upgrade which they said helped them to cope with the huge demand for the online self-assessment tax system in the run-up to the end of January filing deadline. Nearly two... [03 Feb 2006]
Tax credit ID theft to be probed by Info Commissioner
News The government admitted last week that 8,800 staff identities at the DWP had been stolen in 2003/04, with 6,800 used in attempts by criminal gangs to make false tax credits claims last summer. Meanwhile... [24 Jan 2006]
Tax credit fiasco: 8,800 identities stolen
News The government has admitted losing £2.7m to fraudulent claims through a hole in the tax credits system as details emerge of further employee identity theft. Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was... [19 Jan 2006]
Criminals make 20,000 false tax credit claims
News The huge rise in fraud attempts forced HMRC to close the online tax credits portal at the beginning of December last year after it discovered personal details of 13,000 civil servants working at the... [16 Jan 2006]
Opinion: ID cards - a fiasco waiting to happen
Comment That is where the government's tax credits system came unstuck and we don't seem to have learnt any lessons. A national ID card may not be bad in theory, says Brian White but there are a number of... [16 Jan 2006]
Taxman admits to "virulent" mass ID fraud
News The government has said it still does not know the full extent of the tax credits ID fraud that has so far resulted in 13,000 benefits staff having their personal details stolen and used to make false... [16 Dec 2005]
Thousands hit by tax credit ID fraud
News The HM Revenue and Customs tax credits website for making online claims was closed down on 5 December when compliance checks uncovered the ID fraud. Conservative shadow economic secretary Mark Francois... [14 Dec 2005]
Third of government helpline calls go unanswered
News The worst performing government departments are the Department for Work and Pensions, which missed 62 million calls, and HM Revenue and Customs, whose tax credits helpline missed more calls - 52.7... [09 Dec 2005]
£30m ID fraud takes down tax credit website
News The debacle is yet another embarrassment for the government's flagship tax credits programme, which has suffered from problems since it was launched in 2003. EDS was last month forced to shell out £71m... [05 Dec 2005]
1,500 civil servants victims of tax credit ID theft
News Criminals have stolen the identities of 1,500 Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff and used them to make fraudulent claims on the government's tax credits website. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)... [02 Dec 2005]
