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HMRC extends late-fee amnesty after site crash
News People who filed their tax returns online over the weekend will be exempt from a £100 late filing penalty, following problems with the HMRC Self Assessment Online website. The HMRC self-assessment tax website was unavailable for a large part of the...
[February 6, 2008, 8:30]
HMRC warns of online self-assessment scam
News According to HMRC, a "small number" of users have had their details and passwords compromised by scammers, who made fraudulent tax refund claims through the account, hoping to route the refunds into their own pockets.
[August 7, 2009, 11:01]
HMRC appoints data guardians
News Each HMRC business unit has appointed a data guardian, "to strengthen the management of the department's data assets", according to a parliamentary written answer by Jane Kennedy, financial secretary to the Treasury, on 27 February 2008.
[February 29, 2008, 9:18]
HMRC data loss blamed on targets
News In November 2007, HMRC admitted it had lost two CDs containing the details of 25 million individuals. He said that Gus O'Donnell's review of the HMRC data loss would lead to new guidance for the public sector being issued "later this month", and...
[April 23, 2008, 13:25]
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]
HMRC seeks CIO to help overhaul IT dept
News HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is now advertising the £180,000 per year position, heading a staff of 1,400 and a budget of £1bn in one of the largest IT departments in Europe. According to the HMRC's latest performance report, the department has...
[January 14, 2009, 8:39]
HMRC site goes down, MPs can't file tax returns
Blog On the day of the deadline for people to file their self assesment tax returns, the HMRC website experienced severe technical difficulties, for six hours. When I rang up HMRC, they insisted that 104,000 people had actually managed to file their tax...
[January 31, 2008, 16:52]
HMRC data breach fiasco disks appear on eBay
Blog What was HMRC thinking? Public trust over the data-handling capabilities of the government will rightly be shaken over the HMRC fiasco, and I hope it will get people questioning about whether ID Cards will actually be secure, and necessary.
[November 21, 2007, 13:21]
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. The cartridge was signed for when it reached the office but was subsequently mislaid, said...
[December 18, 2007, 17:02]
HMRC delays Paye system rollout
News HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) postponed the Paye system because of uncertainty over whether it was ready to oversee the collection of taxes from about 31 million people. One of the key findings of the Poynter Review into HMRC data handling was that...
[July 22, 2008, 8:39]
HMRC signs Airwave deal in fight against fraud
News HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has signed a 15-year deal to provide its criminal-investigation and detection teams with the Airwave digital radio system. HMRC's law-enforcement arm investigates and detects crimes involving tax fraud, smuggling and...
[February 14, 2008, 7:47]
HMRC letters of apology cost £2.25m
News The seven-figure bill provoked outrage from the TaxPayer's Alliance, which attacked HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) for losing the two CDs after it posted them to the National Audit Office last year. Kennedy stated: "The cost of sending letters to the...
[January 18, 2008, 7:19]
HMRC hopes IT contract will save £110m a year
News A spokesperson for HMRC told GC News that the department intends to reduce costs through a process of modernisation and getting rid of legacy systems. Obviously when Customs & Excise and the Inland Revenue were joined together as HMRC there were...
[November 2, 2009, 9:01]
HMRC offers £20,000 for return of lost discs
News Now that the main search has finished without finding the CDs, the Metropolitan Police has appealed to all staff at HMRC, the National Audit Office and the Treasury to check at work and "other locations" for the discs.
[December 5, 2007, 14:08]
Taxpayer to foot bill for HMRC disc search
News The Metropolitan Police Service has said it will try to recover the full costs from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) for what is thought to be the most expensive lost-property inquiry ever in the UK. Police are believed to have searched National Audit...
[July 21, 2008, 8:27]
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. HMRC has a strict policy forbidding staff to access...
[May 1, 2008, 14:38]
Police demand HMRC foots bill for disc search
News The Metropolitan Police has said it will seek full costs from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) for what is being reported as the most expensive lost-property inquiry in the UK. The HMRC has previously guaranteed to cover the "incremental" costs of the...
[January 15, 2008, 7:46]
Police to stop looking for HMRC CDs
Blog On Monday the police will call of the search for the two unecrypted CDs containing sensitive information on 25 million people that HMRC lost at the end of November, according to the Financial Times. TNT should also stop looking for it, and HMRC...
[December 14, 2007, 16:22]
Good news and bad news for the HMRC
Blog Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has told The Register that a record number of British taxpayers have filed their returns via the internet. Nearly 5.8 million people are said to have filed their returns online before the January 31st...
[February 2, 2009, 15:03]
Mixed messages from HMRC over data loss blame
Blog The immediate reaction by HMRC was some hysterical finger pointing. According to the Guardian, HMRC on Wednesday said that the junior official was acting as a lone gun, "completely outside of their remit".
[November 22, 2007, 16:43]
