inland revenue
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]
Exclusive: HMRC names new CIO
News As HMRC CIO, Pavitt will also oversee the £2.8bn Aspire (Acquiring Strategic Partners for the Inland Revenue) IT services contract with Capgemini, one of the UK's largest outsourcing deals. Transport for... [02 Jun 2009]
Taxman hunts for new CIO for £1bn IT dept
News The CIO will also oversee the £2.8bn Aspire (Acquiring Strategic Partners for the Inland Revenue) IT services contract with Capgemini, one of the UK's largest outsourcing deals. HM... [13 Jan 2009]
£71m clawed back from IT tax credits chaos
News EDS provided IT services to what was then the Inland Revenue under an outsourcing contract from 1994 to 2004. In a settlement first announced in 2005, EDS agreed to pay £71.25m to HM... [06 Jan 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). Three separate investigations have looked into HM Revenue &... [26 Jun 2008]
Malaysian Inland Revenue Board Speeds Up Decision Making Process With Push Email
White Paper The Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia (IRB) collects taxes on behalf of the Malaysian Government. Its ageing messaging system could not keep pace with the changing communications needs of an increasingly... [10 Dec 2007]
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 Inland... [18 Oct 2007]
HMRC slammed over Capgemini contract costs
News Edward Leigh MP, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), called the costs "hard to justify", following the costly transition of the Aspire (Acquiring Strategic Partners for the Inland Revenue)... [12 Jun 2007]
Steve Lamey
CIO Profile If anybody's perception of the Inland Revenue was grey and boring it will change soon. Steve Lamey took on one of the biggest and most challenging IT jobs in government when he became CIO of the newly... [06 Jun 2007]
Opinion: Why I fear joined-up government
Comment These could be the security services, the Inland Revenue, your local council, Tesco, the Russian mafia or even the Combined State Political Directorate of tomorrow, given the rapid and alarming manner in... [18 Jan 2007]
'Bad publicity': EDS chief attacks the media
News The negative publicity surrounding EDS' loss, after nearly 10 years, of the £3bn contract at the Inland Revenue, was a case of "debugging really big government systems on the six o'clock news", said Thomas. [09 Jan 2007]
Brampton Factor: Data theft a warning
Comment The Inland Revenue has lately put itself forward as the prime example with its excessive zeal for clear desks, and a spokesperson who asserted that employees were hired for the sole purpose of carrying... [22 Nov 2006]
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... [15 Aug 2006]
Mega 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]
Treasury denies PC tax plan
News Reversing exemptions on personal use of office computers will do nothing to foster greater IT literacy or to encourage taxpayers to communicate electronically with the Inland Revenue or other government... [04 May 2006]