HMRC Spends £7M on O365

On 22 January, HMRC received Cabinet Office approval to spend £4.9m on O365 software. The green light for an additional outlay of £850,000 was granted exactly two months later.

Public Technology reports that in Q1 of the current financial year HMRC spent an additional £1.2m on rolling out Microsoft’s Office 365 technology, taking total spending on the deployment to about £7m.

O365 is Microsoft’s flagship hosted software product, and offers cloud-based versions of a range of popular productivity programs, such as Word, Excel, and Outlook.

Is this money well spent?


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Over 13,000 Changes - FFS!

The Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 is now up to date on https://t.co/EQxix7K3ZJ. This is the most heavily amended Act, with over 13,000 changes over 30 years and a huge achievement by our editorial team. You can view the Act here: https://t.co/fpsrhQC6zJ pic.twitter.com/h2jjFDgSnn

— legislation.gov.uk (@legislation) October 14, 2019

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Future Borders Digital Design

HMRC is looking to appoint up to four suppliers to support its work for the next two years creating and implementing a range of digital services as part of the cross-government Future Borders programme.

HMRC has published two contract notices respectively seeking commercial partners to provide additional design and delivery skills to assist in its work on a number of “operational facing digital products” to be rolled out at the UK border.

Many of the services in question are currently at the stage of “emerging and initiatives and prototypes”. Work to design, construct and, ultimately, deploy them will take place over the next two years.

The chosen suppliers will be expected to be able to provide specialist teams and individuals to work as part of scrum teams delivering project sprints. All personnel provided must have baseline personnel security standard clearance.

Deadline for both is 28 October.


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Junior Tax Facts

HMRC's introduction to tax for 8 to 11 year olds, in order to ensure that when they become adults they happily hand their money over to the state ;).

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681K Taxpayers Ask For "Time to Pay"

The FT reports that research from UHY Hacker Young, shows as at the end of June 681,000 individuals and companies had arranged ‘Time to Pay’ agreements with HMRC.

These agreements allow taxpayers to pay their taxes over an agreed period of time, but UHY claims the process can be “extremely difficult to negotiate”.

The firm thought the high number was down to uncertainty over Brexit and the subsequent broader slowdown of the economy.

UHY thought HMRC’s controversial loan charge was also likely to have caused a surge in the number of taxpayers forced to negotiate ‘Time to Pay’ arrangements. However, this appears not to be the case, as HMRC has rebutted this as repayment plans for the loan charge differ to the 'Time to Pay' arrangements.

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HMRC £10M Grants To Boost Customs Expertise

HMRC has announced that it will provide a further £10 million in grants for customs agents and intermediaries to build capacity in managing customs declarations.

The £10 million in grants is open to businesses based in, or with a branch in, the UK, that currently complete customs declarations for importers and exporters.

They are available to support costs of hiring staff, including £3,000 for recruitment costs, and up to £10,000 for salary costs, to help build business capacity.

You can read full details of what can be claimed and how to apply on GOV.UK.

Businesses that will benefit from the funding are encouraged to apply early, as applications will close once all the funding has been allocated, and by 31 January 2020 at the latest.

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