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Gov't adviser: More data breaches on the way
News In the wake of the HM Revenue & Customs debacle, Collins said that government departments had discovered and closed security holes that were "on the edge of being quite dangerous". One year on from HM Revenue & Customs' loss of 25 million people's...
[November 28, 2008, 7:29]
HMRC fiasco: Security experts predict fallout
News The loss by HM Revenue & Customs of 25 million child-benefit claimant records has understandably sparked a host of reactions from security and legal experts. Indeed, it is the third major data leakage from HM Revenue & Customs in just three months.
[November 23, 2007, 10:29]
Police demand HMRC foots bill for disc search
News Scotland Yard will demand HM Revenue & Customs foots the record bill for the police force's hunt for the missing data discs containing 25 million child-benefit records. The Metropolitan Police has said it will seek full costs from HM Revenue...
[January 15, 2008, 7:46]
Taxpayer to foot bill for HMRC disc search
News The taxpayer has been landed with a £473,544 bill for the hunt for the missing HM Revenue & Customs data discs. The Metropolitan Police Service has said it will try to recover the full costs from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) for what is thought to...
[July 21, 2008, 8:27]
HMRC letters of apology cost £2.25m
News The government has admitted it cost £2.25m to send letters of apology to people affected by the loss of 25 million child-benefit records by HM Revenue & Customs. The seven-figure bill provoked outrage from the TaxPayer's Alliance, which attacked HM...
[January 18, 2008, 7:19]
HMRC signs Airwave deal in fight against fraud
News HM Revenue & Customs is spending £60m on a secure communications system to help in its crackdown on fraudsters and smugglers. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has signed a 15-year deal to provide its criminal-investigation and detection teams with the...
[February 14, 2008, 7:47]
Over 600 HMRC staff disciplined for data infractions
News Kennedy revealed on Wednesday in a written answer to parliamentary questions that 238 staff were disciplined at HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in 2005, dropping to 180 in 2006 and 192 in 2007. HM Revenue & Customs has had to discipline over 600 staff...
[May 1, 2008, 14:38]
HMRC site crashes on last day for filing tax returns
News During the morning and early afternoon of Thursday, users trying to access the self-assessment online section of HM Revenue & Customs' (HMRC's) website were confronted with the message: "Online service temporarily unavailable".
[February 1, 2008, 10:25]
Whitehall reports 30 data losses since November
News Since HM Revenue & Customs reported in November that it had lost the details of 25 million child-benefits claimants, Whitehall has suffered a further 30 security breaches, the Information Commissioner's Office revealed on Monday.
[June 24, 2008, 13:20]
HMRC tax-credit losses approach £10bn
News HM Revenue & Customs' system to give a tax break to families has lost £9.91bn in fraud, error and overpayments to date. The Liberal Democrats said the quarterly figures released by HM Revenue & Customs show that the government has failed to hit its...
[May 23, 2008, 9:29]
Capgemini cashes in with government IT project
News Profits from its contract with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are providing Capgemini with an early Christmas present, according to a member of the Committee of Public Accounts You've had your Christmas present in terms of profits," committee member...
[December 21, 2006, 7:22]
Goverment inks two Microsoft megadeals
Talkback "The software giant has inked contracts with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the largest government department, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which is planning a move to Windows XP despite a minor Windows upgrade knocking out 80,000...
[July 28, 2005, 19:59]
Northern and Shell Cuts Costs With Streamlined, Simplified Financial Management Processes
White Papers The challenges were to streamline financial management, enforce best practice processes, strengthen financial discipline, and facilitate faster, easier compliance with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC); cut management overhead through automation and...
[July 11, 2007, 1:00]
RedPrairie Case Study: InBond
White Papers The company needed an automated warehouse management solution that would enable it to operate a multi-customer, real-time environment while incorporating duty management and compliance with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) regulations as a seamlessly...
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
Offshore Tax Disclosure Campaign Pilots New Compliance Transformation Approach
White Papers A landmark series of legal rulings meant a number of financial institutions had to provide information to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) about hundreds of thousands of their UK customers who hold offshore accounts.
[November 6, 2007, 0:00]
HMRC named 'internet villain' of the year
News HM Revenue & Customs was named as "internet villain" of the year by the Internet Services Providers' Association on Friday. This year, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) won the villain award for losing millions of citizens' personal data.
[March 17, 2008, 10:36]
ID cards: Data-protection minister calls for review
News Speaking at a joint House of Commons and House of Lords select committee on human rights, the data-protection minister Michael Wills admitted he was not informed about the data breach at HM Revenue & Customs before Alistair Darling's public...
[November 28, 2007, 8:07]
HMRC loses thousands of pensioners' details
News The details were lost at an office of HM Revenue & Customs in Cardiff after a data cartridge went missing in September, an HMRC spokesperson said on Tuesday. Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs has admitted losing the personal details of over 6,500...
[December 18, 2007, 17:02]
Another Day, Another Data Loss
Blog Unsurprisingly, this incident was not the first security breach involving HM Revenue & Customs: earlier that month (April) the BBC reported that a CD-ROM containing the personal details of thousands of Standard Life pension holders had gone...
[October 13, 2008, 8:56]
Tax office IT chief is in the money
News The annual pay packet of HM Revenue & Customs' IT chief rocketed by over 20 percent to almost £260,000 after just six months in the role. Lamey, previously a director at BOC and CIO at British Gas, took over the HMRC job from the Inland Revenue's...
[August 15, 2006, 16:35]
