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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 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 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]
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 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 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 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 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 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 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]
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]
Over 600 HMRC Staff Disciplined For Data Breaches
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]
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]
HMRC Meets Tough Targets For Recycling, Thanks To HP Planet Partners
White Papers Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) needed to increase its recycling if it was to meet ambitious corporate responsibility targets. Within the first 18 months of joining the HP Planet Partners programme, it had recycled 13.1 tonnes of HP toner...
[December 19, 2006, 23:00]
HMRC Still Owed Millions By EDS
News In a settlement EDS agreed to pay £71.25m to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) due to problems with the tax-credit computer system it designed. Difficulties with the scheme resulted in HMRC overpaying £6bn in tax credits during the three years after its...
[February 6, 2008, 9:40]
Watchdog: HMRC Did Breach Data Laws
News Twenty-five million records of people claiming or receiving child benefits were lost in transit last month between HMRC and the National Audit Office. We will decide what further action to take [against HMRC] once the final PricewaterhouseCoopers...
[December 18, 2007, 13:54]
Review Begins Into HMRC Data Loss
News The review team appointed to investigate the loss of child-benefit data from HMRC is scheduled to publish an initial report on 14 December, 2007. The Poynter Review will make interim recommendations on any further, urgent measures that HMRC should...
[November 26, 2007, 14:14]
HMRC Data Not Filtered Due To Cost
News The National Audit Office (NAO) has released the details of an email exchange between the junior manager at HMRC responsible for sending the CDs containing 25 million child-benefit records and the NAO, with a senior HMRC manager copied in on the...
[November 23, 2007, 14:57]
HMRC Fiasco: Security Experts Predict Fallout
News Armstrong said: "Even if the data on the CDs [sent by an HMRC official to the National Audit Office] does not get into the hands of fraudsters, it is likely that even now a large email campaign is being planned to prey on the British public.
[November 23, 2007, 10:29]
