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Taxman to save £110m by taking an axe to its IT estate
News HMRC inherited a large number of systems after it was created from the merger of the Inland Revenue and Her Majesty's Custom and Excise in 2005, leaving it with duplicate systems performing the same role. [30 Oct 2009]
Reports in full: HMRC and MoD data breaches
News Problems of this nature arose out of the merger of the Inland Revenue (IR) and Her Majesty's Customs and Excise (HMCE). The IPCC was looking into events leading up to the loss of data and considering... [26 Jun 2008]
Government reveals snooping figures
News He wrote: "It has played a key role in numerous operations including, for example, the prevention of murders, tackling large-scale drug importations, evasion of Excise duty, people smuggling, gathering intelligence both... [30 Jan 2008]
Taxman gets new CIO
News Lamey, who was named one of the UK's top CIOs in the silicon.com CIO50 2007, joined HMRC in October 2004 from British Gas and oversaw the integration of the IT operations of Customs & Excise and the... [18 Oct 2007]
Steve Lamey
CIO Profile Steve Lamey took on one of the biggest and most challenging IT jobs in government when he became CIO of the newly merged HM Customs and Excise and Inland Revenue departments in October 2004. What they... [06 Jun 2007]
Tax office CIO gets 20 per cent pay rise
News Lamey, previously a director at BOC and CIO at British Gas, took over the HMRC job from the Inland Revenue's previous IT director John Yard just after the department's £3bn IT Aspire outsourcing contract was switched from EDS to... [15 Aug 2006]
Revenue and Customs merge IT contracts
News HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has integrated the two separate IT contracts that were in place before the merger of the Customs & Excise and Inland Revenue departments last year. The old... [06 Apr 2006]
Iris scans and passenger databases to protect UK borders
News The data will be matched against 'watch lists' held by the Immigration Service, Police and Customs and Excise. As a result of this massive increase in travel, coupled with the fear of international... [16 Feb 2006]
Taxman threatens to sue EDS for credits 'bodge job'
News HM Revenue and Customs, formerly the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise, has repeated threats to take legal action against IT supplier EDS following further reports of tax credit... [11 Oct 2005]
"Nightmare" tax credits system slammed by MPs
News HM Revenue & Customs, the recently-merged Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise department, is considering its legal options after previous IT supplier EDS rejected a compensation claim... [08 Sep 2005]
IT not the only key to government efficiency
News He has identified a long list of challenges facing the combined tax entity, which came together from the merger of Customs & Excise and the Inland Revenue. HM Revenue & Customs CIO Steve... [23 May 2005]
Lorry road-charging scheme pushed back to 2008
News The government had hoped to introduce the charging system by 2006 but the last progress report by HM Customs & Excise, which is running the project, said this has been pushed back to allow for a... [03 Mar 2005]
Government IT gets 'unfair' kicking
News Gershon said examples of success could be found in the rollout of new technology in JobCentre Plus, Customs and Excise undertaking one of the most complex IT projects in the world, and the development of... [07 Feb 2005]
BT lands £28.7m Customs IT contract extension
News BT has won a £28.7m extension to its contract to manage the HM Customs and Excise (HMCE) import and export system until said system is replaced in 2010. BT built the Customs Handling of... [06 Jan 2005]
Littlewoods brings Vertex outsourcing deal in-house
News The Vertex spokesman also denied that the move was any way connected with a court case against Customs & Excise that United Utilities lost over the amount of VAT payable on the services it supplied to... [09 Dec 2004]
