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HMRC site crashes on last day for filing tax returns
News HM Revenue & Customs has been forced to extend the deadline for filing self-assessment tax returns online after its website crashed due to the number of people trying to file their returns before the 31 January deadline.
[February 1, 2008, 10:25]
Over 600 HMRC staff disciplined for data infractions
News HM Revenue & Customs has had to discipline over 600 staff since 2005 over data-protection incidents, according to Treasury financial secretary Jane Kennedy. Kennedy revealed on Wednesday in a written answer to parliamentary questions that 238 staff...
[May 1, 2008, 14:38]
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]
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]
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]
Gov't adviser: More data breaches on the way
News One year on from HM Revenue & Customs' loss of 25 million people's personal data, a chief information-security expert at Whitehall has warned there will be more high-profile government data breaches to come.
[November 28, 2008, 7:29]
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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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 The costs of HMRC's outsourced IT programme, known as Aspire, have...
[December 21, 2006, 7:22]
Darling blames officials for data loss
News Chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling has said employees of HM Revenue & Customs were responsible for the loss of sensitive child-benefit data. Darling confirmed that two discs containing details on about 25 million people had been lost in...
[November 21, 2007, 7:16]
Outdated IT damaging tax-collection efforts: PAC
News The Public Accounts Committee has said that delays in introducing new IT are damaging the efforts of HM Revenue & Customs to collect taxes. In a report on HMRC's tax-collection processes, published on 10 December, 2009, the committee said the...
[December 11, 2009, 9:07]
Even the Government
Talkback Having read this article I'm pleased to say that HM Revenue & Customs (my employer), a government dept still in many areas lagging in the dark ages, is in the process of a huge deployment of Documentum eRoom, a collaboration/communication...
[April 3, 2007, 9:40]
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]
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]
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]
HMRC hopes IT contract will save £110m a year
News HM Revenue & Customs says its newly revised Aspire contract with Capgemini will save £110m a year without cutting jobs. Obviously when Customs & Excise and the Inland Revenue were joined together as HMRC there were legacy systems, some of which...
[November 2, 2009, 9:01]
