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RSS customsSoca game for £500m tech revamp
News The body currently uses a mix of systems it took on from the National Crime Squad, the National Criminal Intelligence Service and part of the investigation arm of HM Revenue and Customs. The Serious Organised Crime... [10 Dec 2008]
Web traders targeted in £2bn tax dodge crackdown
News In order to crackdown on tax evaders, the PAC recommends HM Revenue and Customs advertises the benefits of joining the "formal economy" to businesses as well as detecting and prosecuting more offenders when they are found. [09 Dec 2008]
Richard Thomas
AS Profile Information Commissioner since November 2002, he has been propelled into the public eye and the Agenda Setters top 10 by the spate of data breach revelations that followed HM Revenue and Customs losing 25 million... [07 Oct 2008]
EU: IT goods trade pact needs a refresh
News The ITA currently has 43 signatories, representing 70 members and states or customs territories. The European Commission has proposed a revision of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA), a trade pact that for the... [17 Sep 2008]
Home Office loses data on 84,000 prisoners
News And last year, two CDs containing the confidential personal details of 25 million child benefit recipients were lost by HM Revenue & Customs. Unencrypted data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales has gone missing... [22 Aug 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 The launch of a computer... [21 Jul 2008]
The £500k hunt for missing HMRC discs
News The taxpayer has been landed with a £473,544 bill for the hunt for the missing HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) data discs. The Metropolitan Police Service mounted a months-long search for the data discs containing 25... [18 Jul 2008]
Privacy watchdog to get power to raid
News The Poynter Review recently highlighted systematic data handling failures in the HM Revenue & Customs that led to it losing the personal details of 25 million people. The UK's privacy watchdog could get new powers to... [17 Jul 2008]
UK must overhaul data sharing rules
News The Data Sharing Review found that measures were needed to restore public trust in the way Whitehall handles information in the wake of high profiled data breaches, such as HM Revenue & Customs losing 25 million people's... [11 Jul 2008]
Reports in full: HMRC and MoD data breaches
News The IPCC was looking into events leading up to the loss of data and considering whether any criminal conduct or disciplinary offences had been committed by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) staff. Problems of this nature arose... [26 Jun 2008]
Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News Timeline of the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) data losses The loss of 25 million records from HMRC's Child Benefit Computer System was declared "deplorable" and "entirely avoidable" in two reports into the data blunder... [26 Jun 2008]
HMRC and MoD face action over data blunders
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is taking enforcement action against HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for breaching the Data Protection Act. Two government departments face... [25 Jun 2008]
Taxman unleashes podcasts on the nation
News As the summer holiday season ramps up, HM Revenue & Customs has published a podcast offering advice to travellers on what can and can't be brought back into the UK.silicon.com Public Sector In this latest audio offering... [05 Jun 2008]
Taxman gets record number of online returns
News About 1.4 million out of the 1.6 million returns, 87 per cent, received by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) were sent online, it has revealed.silicon.com Public Sector More than 80 per cent of employers'... [02 Jun 2008]
