HMRC

Great service for messing with the IRS

March 26, 2009 General

Just kidding – it’s never a good idea to mess around with the IRS or, as we have in the UK, HMRC, Les Impots in France and Hacienda in Spain. Even so, given the current economic climate coupled with the general feeling of outrage at some of Wall Street’s more egregious bonus arrangements why not [...]

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KashFlow and Mitrefinch = Solo

March 5, 2009 General

This morning I had a short call with Nick Riby of Solo, a new service that is aimed squarely at the UK contractor market. Solo is the first offering of its kind where a vendor has taken the services offered by others and created something new that help the business person maintain a full set [...]

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HMRC blocking HMRCisshite.com?

September 25, 2008 General

Ken Frost says that a commenter to his site claims HMRC is blocking access to HMRCisshite.com: You may find that you get less HMRC staff posting comments on this blog since the site is now blocked by HMRC in their offices.Another example of the “dark side” censorship, its clear HMRC don’t like criticism That doesn’t [...]

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Stating the obvious

June 30, 2008 General

Nikki Ross Martin’s analysis of the Poynter Report is well worth reading. Key take-aways: Information security, at the time of the incident, simply wasn’t a management priority; Even had it been a priority, HMRC’s organisational design and the governance and accountabilities underpinning it would have made it extremely difficult for it to be felt as [...]

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On meeting HMRC (sort of)

May 22, 2008 General

While in Berlin I happened upon Ben Newton, an Inspector with HMRC who’s got something to do with SAP’s HMRC implementation back in the UK. He was talking about shared services, one of those topics du jour that  is outsourcing by another name. We chucklede about how most people think it’s about throwing IT over [...]

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HMRC is Shite nominated for New Statesman award

May 12, 2008 General

Ken Frost, one of my favourite campaigners has announced that his site HMRC is Shite has been nominated for the New Statesman New Media Awards 2008 in the category of Campaign For Change. According to Ken: This site is a living monument to the incompetence and arrogance of Gordon Brown, who set HMRC up. Recent [...]

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