Tax agency ‘has always maintained’ a policy of enabling MTD users to access services via tools created by third parties, according to new exchequer secretary to the Treasury Dan Tomlinson […]...
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HMRC moves forward with £14m ‘silo-busting’ IT contract
Gitlab deal aims to consolidate multiple standalone systems into SaaS-based platforms so that all groups within the organisation are on the same platform as other analysts, data scientists and coders […]...
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Treasury works on major new data platform to ‘rewire the state’
Department alerts tech suppliers to its plans to proceed with early planning and exploratory stages of the delivery of a system that will unite information from a range of sources […]...
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HMRC algorithm for automated council tax valuations offers ‘greater consistency and quality’
Valuation process to begin in a year’s time will, for the first time, use a software tool to estimate values and place hundreds of thousands of properties in taxation bands […]...
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GDS ramps up work to track departments’ cloud usage and costs
The specialist digital unit has put in a place two deals this year to support the creation of a platform to provide a single source of info on Whitehall consumption […]...
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Trade department signs £3.5m deals to boost tech maturity and identify vulnerabilities
DBT has put in place two agreements with major reseller SCC intended to provide greater rigour to assessing its current tech estate and picking out potential security risks going forward […]...
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HM Land Registry seeks £72m digital and data partners to deliver ‘radical, permanent changes’
The government department responsible for overseeing housebuying and administering the national register of millions of property titles is engaged in a major transformation agenda and wishes to identify tech providers […]...
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HMRC Transformation Roadmap: New citizen services, more revenue and ‘cultural change’ across department
PublicTechnology explores the tax agency’s ambitious vision for the coming years, including ‘automating tax where possible’, investing in new analytics technology to help combat fraud, and upgrading ageing IT infrastructure […]...
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HMRC pegs IT contract spending at £1.6bn a year and targets move away from ‘legacy service integrators’
Annual report outlines efforts to open up procurement to more providers, to support objective to ‘have fewer technologies providing our IT platforms, so we can scale them up more easily’ […]...
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Improved analytics could save Whitehall billions in fraud losses, NAO report finds
Auditors warn that there is currently ‘no clear plan’ to realise the potential of data to eat into the current tally of up to £80bn lost to fraud each year […]...
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