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Customs & Excise overhaul to fight fraud
News According to a HM Customs & Excise spokesman Mark Thomson the overhaul will "better utilise staff time" and make communication between departments more efficient. Although specifics of the new system are not yet worked out, Thomson anticipates the...
[February 19, 1999, 9:04]
Customs criticised for £100m spend
News Customs & Excise has spent more than £100m on online systems without a clear idea of their benefits. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has criticised HM Customs & Excise for spending millions on its e-government programme without being confident...
[June 22, 2004, 11:25]
Police raid suspected UK computer fraudsters
News Customs and excise officers have arrested 21 men in the UK in connection with alleged computer hardware fraud estimated to be worth millions of pounds. We are very pleased with how the operation has gone so far," said Customs and Excise spokesman...
[February 21, 2001, 15:10]
Freeserve demands action on e-commerce VAT directive
News HM Customs & Excise, which collects VAT in the UK, is understood to have conducted a review of the situation -- but no decision has been made. I am bitterly disappointed that, despite the new European proposals, Customs and Excise still refuse to...
[December 19, 2001, 13:02]
Freeserve wins small victory in VAT row
News This means the UK Customs and Excise Commissioners will have to explain their decision not to make AOL pay VAT, at 17.5 percent, on the money it receives from UK subscribers to its Internet services. Customs and Excise believe that AOL is exempt...
[September 26, 2002, 14:23]
E-waste strife, recycling computers ethically
Blog I guess you could call it a usual day in the office, phone ringing, guys out on a pretty big collection (7.5 tonne truck filled to the brim with old IT hardware) and Kev stripping down perfectly working P4m laptops (contraband customs and Excise...
[October 15, 2008, 16:05]
Data-matching could catch VAT-dodgers
News Last year Customs and Excise introduced stringent checks on VAT registration, and as a result 1.5 percent of applications were refused. Despite the huge loss to the government's coffers, Customs has no estimate of the how much of this is caused by...
[July 29, 2004, 14:20]
Man gets five years for £14m computer fraud
News Hashash was arrested by Customs & Excise on 16 March, 2000. A customs spokesperson said VAT missing trader fraud is widespread, and is often conducted by organised crime gangs. Customs introduced a nationally co-ordinated strategy to tackle the...
[July 19, 2002, 15:07]
Tax credit IT system condemned
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 for unsatisfactory system performance.
[September 8, 2005, 9:25]
HMRC hopes IT contract will save £110m a year
News Obviously when Customs & Excise and the Inland Revenue were joined together as HMRC there were legacy systems, some of which remain. HM Revenue & Customs says its newly revised Aspire contract with Capgemini will save £110m a year without cutting...
[November 2, 2009, 9:01]
Tax office IT chief is in the money
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 Capgemini, and...
[August 15, 2006, 16:35]
Man arrested in BitTorrent probe
News According to Associated Press reports, Hong Kong's Customs and Excise Department arrested the unnamed man after an investigation into the file-sharing program BitTorrent. Hong Kong authorities have arrested a 38-year-old man who is accused of...
[January 14, 2005, 13:30]
Govt. kiosks go slow on superhighway
News The Inland Revenue, Contributions Agency and Customs and Excise worked together to place six £8,000 touchscreen Internet kiosks in banks, libraries and other public places from County Durham to Plymouth.
[November 7, 1996, 13:42]
High tech crime chief calls for new Internet laws
News NCS will work in partnership with the National Crime Intelligence Squad (NCIS), HM Customs and Excise, and local police forces to form the UK's first national law enforcement organisation specifically tackling cybercrime.
[April 18, 2001, 14:21]
AOL broadband will dodge VAT
News HM Customs and Excise ruled in 1997 that an Internet access package that involved "the supply of some content in addition to the provision of Internet access" would not be liable for VAT in the UK if the company providing the package was based...
[June 12, 2002, 9:36]
Government criticised for limiting online privacy
News Through the Customs and Excise office, the government has attempted to ensure only low-strength encryption software becomes available, according to Bohm. The government has deliberately hampered the take-up of encryption software to maintain police...
[September 9, 1999, 7:15]
Freeserve keeps check on AOL's VAT saving
News John Pluthero, Freeserve's chief executive, has already asked the government to change the tax rules, and recently met with Customs & Excise officials. Internet service provider Freeserve is continuing its campaign against fellow ISP AOL by running...
[August 21, 2001, 14:23]
Privacy experts slam snooping code of practice
News These individuals can range from police superintendents to HM Customs and Excise officials and the Secret Intelligence Service. Privacy experts have slammed the Home Office's draft Code of Practice for accessing communications data as a nebulous...
[August 15, 2001, 16:40]
High-tech's thin blue line
News As a multi-agency unit, the group has seconded staff from the military, the intelligence agencies and Customs and Excise. The latest research figures from the UK law enforcement agency charged with tackling cybercriminals - a motley mixture of lone...
[April 5, 2005, 15:50]
Civil liberties groups condemn Big Brother proposals
News It is written on behalf of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), HM Customs and Excise the intelligence services and the governments hi-tech surveillance centre GCHQ and reveals details of a plan to invoke sweeping changes to...
[December 4, 2000, 8:40]
