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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. Proposals being consulted on include giving the ICO powers to carry out... [17 Jul 2008]
Key Dates for the Tax Year 2004/05
White Paper It will help you to prepare and send off the main forms in good time - to the Inland Revenue, Customs and Excise, and Companies House. In a simplified way, the paper covers corporation tax, PAYE, self-assessment, VAT, National Insurance... [03 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 out of the merger of the... [26 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 from the agency, HMRC... [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 People filing their self-assessment tax returns online had an £100 late... [02 Jun 2008]
Tax payer still owed millions by EDS
News In a settlement EDS agreed to pay £71.25m to Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) over problems with the tax credit computer system it designed. The settlement was negotiated in good faith with HMRC and is consistent with EDS' assessment of the... [05 Feb 2008]
Self-assessment tax site crashes out on deadline day
News Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has been forced to extend the deadline for filing self-assessment tax returns online after the website crashed due to the number of people trying to file their returns before the 31 January deadline. [31 Jan 2008]
The CIOs transforming government IT
Comment The biggest spenders were the NHS, the Department for Work and Pensions, HM Revenue and Customs and the Ministry of Defence. An assessment of shared services' value and benefits ought to be put on a unit cost basis and I don't see that at the moment. [27 Jun 2007]
The CIOs transforming government IT
CIO Analysis The biggest spenders were the NHS, the Department for Work and Pensions, HM Revenue and Customs and the Ministry of Defence. An assessment of shared services' value and benefits ought to be put on a unit cost basis and I don't see that at the moment. [06 Jun 2007]
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. Almost a quarter of self-assessment tax returns were filed online in the financial year... [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). Tax chiefs have praised an IT upgrade which they said... [03 Feb 2006]
File tax return early to beat "heavy web traffic"
News Just under 1.3 million returns were filed via the internet for the previous tax year - and to date this year, traffic to the site is running almost a third higher already, according to HM Revenue & Customs. [15 Dec 2005]
Whitehall failing to learn from decade of IT disasters
News But Leigh also admitted that a "great deal of progress" has been made in the last 10 years and cited the "valuable steps forward" taken by HM Customs in the use of new technology and the successful negotiation of improved prices for computer... [06 Dec 2005]
£75m IT bill for Customs and Inland Revenue merger
News The Treasury's regulatory impact assessment of the cost of the merger said: "The known costs that arise directly from the creation of HM Revenue and Customs are anticipated to be of the order of £75million over 2004/05 and 2005/06, including the... [25 Nov 2004]
MPs hammer Customs for failure to control IT spending
News The department's further failings are pointed out by the committee saying that it needs a firm assessment of the benefits for Customs and for businesses from the eVAT service and assurances that the required 50 per cent use of the system can be... [22 Jun 2004]
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