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The Weekly Round-Up: 25.09.09
Round-Up However, given the minister responsible for launching it stepped down, and that time is running out for Gordon Brown's government, it looked as if time was running out for another tax. Absolute madness," roared another... [25 Sep 2009]
ANPR "ring of steel" watches over Manchester
News Every car is screened against a network of police and government databases, with the system able to instantly trigger alerts about everything from suspected terrorists and stolen vehicles, to banned drivers and... [05 Jun 2008]
Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall
News HMRC has about 100,000 PCs and 6,600 servers processing everything from tax returns to P45 applications for about 60 million people. Plumpton added the HA was in talks with sat-nav providers about allowing drivers to... [09 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...
Comment UK businesses and individuals pay among the highest rates of tax in the world, but many public services have been cut to be replaced by costly private services. All car owners forced to pay for a... [20 Mar 2008]
Skin-detecting CCTV keeps an eye on motorists
News And it's not seen by the people in there as actually anything other than a flat tax. Vehicle Occupancy, a company spun out of research at Loughborough University, has pioneered an infrared CCTV system known as dtech that... [26 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tax crash, mobile driving, eBay feedback, Vista woes…
Comment You don't wait until your car runs dry of petrol to pay your fuel tax do you (sorry fill up with petrol). Tax payers have had ten months to complete their self assessments. Come on be... [07 Feb 2008]
Tax payer still owed millions by EDS
News MPs have called on the government to take legal action against outsourcing giant EDS to recoup the millions of pounds the company still owes over the tax credits IT fiasco.silicon.com Public Sector In a settlement EDS... [05 Feb 2008]
Driver e-services save £33m
News Fifteen 'e-services' are now available, from applying for provisional driving licences, booking driving and theory tests to buying car tax. All the services achieved high levels of customer satisfaction,... [16 Jan 2008]
How Norwich Union computes pay-as-you-drive
Case Study The UK government is fascinated as it eyes plans for a PAYD system to replace standard road tax discs. As far back as 2003 word got out that insurer Norwich Union (NU) was working on a pay-as-you-drive (PAYD)... [27 Nov 2007]
Hosted VoIP and Data for More Than 25 000 Dealerships in North America
White Paper The company wanted to fulfill network integration between Rodopi billing and provisioning system and ADP's existing service order and activation process, VoIP softswitch, tax solution and hardware order management for... [17 Nov 2007]
DVLA ups contact centre performance
News Other projects include making car tax payable online and over the phone using interactive voice response.silicon.com Public Sector The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has extended its... [06 Nov 2007]
Blackpool saves £2m with contact management
Case Study More importantly, it was able to deliver more joined-up services to constituents including council tax, business rates, planning, street scene services, electoral registration, highways, street lighting, permits for... [06 Aug 2007]
Motorists hit back on road pricing
News And Mark Hosey, a reader from Scotland, said an inexpensive low-tech solution, such as bumping up the road tax prices or encouraging home working, would be better than a pay-as-you-go tax. And... [18 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.05.07
Round-Up Have these people never had their car serviced for a quoted £100, say, only to be hit by the hidden 'parts and labour', 'VAT', 'sales tax', 'added tax', 'mystery tax'... [25 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: M2M
Cheat Sheet It's also possible that M2M will soon play a bigger part in the lives of the UK's average drivers, with the introduction of pay-as-you-drive tax or insurance schemes, with M2M systems reporting back on where and for how... [09 May 2007]
