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 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]
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 HM Revenue & Customs is warning taxpayers who file their self-assessment tax returns online to be especially wary of fraudsters after finding that passwords for the service are being hijacked. Around two-thirds of self-assessment tax returns were...
[August 7, 2009, 11:01]
Web problems make tax taxing
News The Inland Revenue (IR) will issue £100 fines to people who failed to file their tax returns at the weekend because its Web servers were overloaded with last-minute submissions. The government tax office admitted on Monday that its servers slowed...
[January 31, 2005, 11:30]
Inland Revenue online service doesn't add up
News Wednesday is the official deadline for filing self-assessment tax returns, a process some hoped might have been made easier and quicker by online forms debuted by Inland Revenue last April. Tax returns will not be penalised if they are delivered...
[January 31, 2001, 16:09]
Inland Revenue suspends online service
News The Inland Revenue Web site faced another technical hitch last week and had to temporarily shut down its online service for self-assessment tax returns. It is hoped that the changes will enable tax returns to be automatically transferred to the...
[August 21, 2000, 15:00]
IR struggles after tax details leaked online
News The Inland Revenue was still working frantically on Friday to get its self-assessment tax service back online after a serious fault was discovered that compromised the data of individuals using the service to file their tax returns.
[May 31, 2002, 12:26]
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[November 10, 2004, 17:20]
Good news and bad news for the HMRC
Blog Nearly 5.8 million people are said to have filed their returns online before the January 31st deadline, and, according to the HMRC, 67% of UK taxpayers used the online system to file their self-assessment tax returns this year.
[February 2, 2009, 15:03]
EU sees potential in e-government
News While e-services such as tax returns, online VAT, social security benefits, car registration and birth and marriage certificates have "huge potential" to save time and money, they are yet to present an improvement on their offline counterparts...
[January 17, 2005, 14:25]
UKonline goes offline
News In addition to the outage the government admits the site will also not feature any transactional services -- the submission of claims forms and tax returns for example -- due to a lack of security. The fact that transactional services such as the...
[December 6, 2000, 14:20]
Inland Revenue may miss online targets
News Currently fewer than 80,000 users -- less than 1 percent -- are filing their tax returns electronically. There are not enough clear benefits at present for taxpayers to submit their tax returns electronically rather than on paper.
[August 29, 2002, 12:05]
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[April 19, 2009, 14:19]
Eye2Eye: E-envoy on a wired Britain Pt II
News From this month farmers will be able to file their common agricultural returns online, tax returns, VAT returns and you will see a lot of services like that over the year. People spent a lot of time filling in tax forms online only to have them...
[February 12, 2001, 12:09]
Software flaw leads to taxing problems
News Not exactly the kind of message you expect to hear in the middle of doing your taxes, but that's just what some TurboTax customers are getting as they try to set up their state returns. A message in the business version of Intuit's market-leading...
[February 1, 2005, 15:30]
Budget 2002: Small firms get e-business cash boost
News As part of Wednesday's budget, Brown said that cash help will be offered to small firms who carry out their finances, such as their tax returns, online. The Inland Revenue recently put its Pay As You Earn and Corporation Tax services online, and is...
[April 17, 2002, 16:30]
Left hand, right hand
Talkback And then there's Gordon Brown saying that government is going to go online to save money; that VAT returns and employer tax filings will only be possible online, with other services to follow. If the Internet is so important, isn't disconnection a...
[December 8, 2009, 6:48]
British e-government hailed by UN
Talkback Various things from viewing public records to tax returns in America are now done almost exclusivly online in some places, but in many cases wheras the offline implimentaion is handled by the appropriate state department.
[January 12, 2005, 15:10]
Small Business Accounts
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[January 5, 2008, 1:02]



