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Agents and their clients need to be aware that if they use a software application that completes ‘silent login’ using the existing HMRC Government Gateway login page, they should have already updated their software to work with the new login page based on previous HMRC communications.
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Re-platforming of the PAYE EDI Service 29 June 2016
Part of HMRC’s API strategy sees the withdrawal of the use of the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) channel within 3 years.
At the conference held at the Royal Society in London on 7 September 2015 to launch HMRC’s API Strategy, Mark Dearnley HMRC CDIO, announced that part of that strategy envisages HMRC withdrawing the use of the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) channel within 3 years. That public statement of intent aimed to give both developers and users of EDI ample notice of HMRC’s intention to phase out the use of EDI as a transactional channel. That statement has been widely circulated across the EDI community, at IReeN Conferences and via e-mail from Account Managers. HMRC has provided an update of where they are now and what their short to medium term goals are. A formal Discovery Phase commenced in April to capture the existing “as is” processes for the EDI Service. Consultation has taken place with HMRC key stakeholders to map the business processes and with our technical architects to map the IT dependencies and interfaces. A meeting, held in May, marked the first formal consultation with representatives of the IReeN User Group, the British Computer Society and the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals to map user experience and capture pressure/pain points with the existing service. That customer engagement and consultation will continue and expand throughout this project. Through the summer HMRC will be exploring technical options for a solution and engaging with the EDI user group to draw in user feedback/research. HMRC will be drawing out high level requirements and later in the year exploring the end technical solution in consultation with EDI users. Further updates will be forthcoming as the project progresses however in the meantime if you have questions or experiences that you want to share with the EDI user group please contact Samantha Mann, CIPP Senior Policy & Research Officer at policy .
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HMRC Annual Report and Accounts 2015-16 18 July 2016
HMRC has published their Annual Report and Accounts for 2015-16 which at 292 pages covers in detail all aspects of what HMRC do, how they have performed against various targets and how they are held accountable.
HMRC is one of the UK’s biggest organisations. At 31 March 2016, they had around 58,600 full-time equivalent employees in 167 offices across the UK, collecting tax and duties from 45 million individuals and more than 5.4 million businesses, and paying tax credits to 4.4 million families and Child Benefit to 7.4 million families.
The National Audit Office (NAO) has issued their report on HMRC’s Accounts; Amyas Morse, Head of NAO said:
“HMRC is running a complex and challenging set of change programmes, and aiming to maintain service to taxpayers at the same time. On the one hand, it needs to keep its nerve and commitment to its goals even if there are occasional setbacks along the way; on the other, it needs to ensure that it does not make the taxpayer underwrite the risk of failure through service breakdowns.”
Two of the areas covered in the NAO report are tax revenue and spend, as normal, and also HMRC’s plans to transform tax administration.
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