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Post by bracknellboy on Aug 12, 2024 9:06:34 GMT
Article in the The Times. The headline is "HMRC admits it will never recover £19bn of unpaid tax". However, putting that to one side, some rather notable points:
"Separate figures from the report show that every customer service target set by the previous government was missed. Almost 56,000 customers were held on the line for 70 minutes by HMRC in the past year, at which point the call cuts off, up from just 6,900 the previous year."
"HMRC also admitted losing billions of pounds of taxpayer money to error and fraud in tax schemes to encourage research and development in business during the pandemic. About £4.1 billion has been wasted on the schemes since 2020, including £1.2 billion on the one reserved for smaller businesses. In 2022 a Times investigation showed companies using the tax breaks for “innovations”, including a pub adding vegan and gluten-free options to its menus, a launderette that offered to reduce temperatures on its washing machines, and a business that recouped money for staff performance reviews. Tax advisers said that HMRC “almost never checks” claims under the scheme and alleged that they represent “free money” for companies......The department revised its estimate for the level of fraud in the scheme from 5.5 per cent to 24.4 per cent last year, and again to 25.8 per cent this year."
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Post by registerme on Aug 12, 2024 9:25:20 GMT
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Post by bracknellboy on Aug 12, 2024 10:09:01 GMT
oh JHC. Central Government. Major IT system. Consultants. SAP. I would struggle to think of a more horrifying intersection of IT players and interests.
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Post by adrianc on Aug 12, 2024 11:12:07 GMT
"SAP system gives UK tax collector a £750B headache as clock ticks on support
The UK's Treasury ministry is to determine the fate of aging SAP software that runs the nation's tax system – processing £750 billion ($968 billion) of transactions a year – over the coming weeks.
The incoming Labour government faces the task of deciding the future of the technology supporting tax collection, which currently runs on a "highly customised version of the SAP ECC 6.0 commercial software package."
Mainstream support for ECC 6.0 ends at the close of 2027, giving His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) just less than three and a half years to complete a move to SAP's latest system – based on S/4HANA – or to a system from a competitor, most likely Oracle.
Among SAP users and advisors, it is widely thought that because of the lengthy planning and implementation timelines, any large organization that has not begun work to move from ECC to S/4HANA will struggle to do so before the mainstream support deadline.
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Last week, HMRC awarded Capgemini a contract worth up to £574 million ($741 million) to run legacy tax management systems until 2029. This includes "run and change" services for Enterprise Tax Management Platform (ETMP), the main tax platform. It does not include a platform upgrade.
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Capgemini began work on ETMP under the Aspire contract, which began in 2004 and was set to run for 10 years. Although Aspire formally ended in 2017 after a three-year extension, support for ETMP was one of the elements further extended until 2020.
In January 2022, HMRC awarded Capgemini a £51 million agreement to continue supporting UK tax systems including ETMP until December 2024."
So basically business as normal, same-old-same-old runners and riders, leavened with a large slice of "Why didn't the last government do this before now?"
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Post by mogish on Aug 12, 2024 12:36:22 GMT
I hung on the phone for ages in response to pension conts letter. Eventually gave up, wrote to them, got a response year, yes a year later, asking me to call them.
I gave up.
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Post by bracknellboy on Aug 12, 2024 12:48:40 GMT
I hung on the phone for ages in response to pension conts letter. Eventually gave up, wrote to them, got a response year, yes a year later, asking me to call them. I gave up. Was there a typo in there ?
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Post by jonno on Aug 12, 2024 12:52:57 GMT
I hung on the phone for ages in response to pension conts letter. Eventually gave up, wrote to them, got a response year, yes a year later, asking me to call them. I gave up. Was there a typo in there ? Absolutely.......there should have been a U in there  ....................................It should read "pension counts letter"
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Post by benaj on Aug 12, 2024 13:29:46 GMT
Not sure if this is HMRC related.
Some of the food deliveries were delivered by different drivers / riders ordered with the apps, their appearance dont match what the apps profiles.
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Post by mogish on Aug 13, 2024 11:26:03 GMT
Was there a typo in there ? Absolutely.......there should have been a U in there ....................................It should read "pension counts letter" Pension conts... contributions. I know another word that starts with a C to describe HMRC.
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Post by mogish on Aug 13, 2024 11:29:16 GMT
The Scottish alloy wheel production and steel shelter funding... another snp f@#k up. Thousands in grants on the promise of mass employment.
Who in their right mind would open a plant to produce alloy wheels in the middle of nowhere. It's a tourist area with tourist roads. Not an industrial estate.
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Post by keitha on Aug 14, 2024 10:38:49 GMT
The Scottish alloy wheel production and steel shelter funding... another snp f@#k up. Thousands in grants on the promise of mass employment. Who in their right mind would open a plant to produce alloy wheels in the middle of nowhere. It's a tourist area with tourist roads. Not an industrial estate. a Bit like the proposed circuit of Wales being off small roads. or spending £14 million of taxpayers money for TVR to lease the building to produce sports cars. see www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/24454369.failed-tvr-deal-ebbw-vale-cost-taxpayer-14m/so they blow £15 million and TVR paid then £322 a month rent before pulling out to go to Hampshire instead, and they might get 1/2 of the money back if they sell the building
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....................................It should read "pension counts letter"