All posts tagged "HMRC"

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  UK tax agency scouts new payments messaging service

  Payments body Pay.UK has launched the technical specifications for a new WhatsApp-style messaging service that it believes has the potential to help public authorities collect payments. Global Government Forum understands

  • Posted June 4, 2020
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  UK ‘open banking’ champion looks to boost payments functionality

  The UK is “90% of the way” through the first, implementation phase of introducing ‘open banking’, according to the body leading its development – which has just set out its

  • Posted May 21, 2020
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  Help to Save and the power of cross-departmental working

  When NS&I Government Payment Services (NS&I GPS) began working on devising and delivering Help to Save, a new savings scheme designed for working people on low incomes, it faced a

  • Posted January 27, 2020
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  Saving government: Ian Ackerley, chief executive of National Savings & Investments

  During the financial crisis, the UK government stepped in to nationalise some of the country’s biggest banks; coming onto the public sector’s books, they joined a retail savings bank set

  • Posted September 11, 2019
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  Leading-edge payment services for government

  NS&I Government Payment Services (NS&I GPS) provides innovative banking and payment solutions for government departments. Clients include HMRC (the award winning Help to Save scheme; Tax-Free Childcare and 30 hours

  • Posted August 2, 2019
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  Sir Jon Thompson to step down as HMRC chief executive in the autumn

  Sir Jon Thompson announced yesterday that he is to leave HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in the autumn after more than three years as chief executive and first permanent secretary. He

  • Posted July 19, 2019
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  UK tax authority rejects Government Digital Service ID system

  HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), the UK’s tax authority, has confirmed it is to develop a dedicated identity verification system for its online users – sparking a debate over why

  • Posted February 16, 2017
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  Automation ‘could replace 250,000 public sector administrators’

  Automation could lead to almost a quarter of a million UK public sector administrative roles being made redundant, according to a new report. In a new report, the think tank

  • Posted February 6, 2017
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  Jon Thompson, former permanent secretary of the UK Ministry of Defence, and now chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs: Exclusive Interview

  In any ranking of the developed world’s most challenging government jobs, digitising the UK’s tax collection and challenging its civil service’s class system would stand high in the premier league.

  • Posted April 7, 2016
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  Former finance watchdog chair calls for closed hearings into tax collection

  The UK government should allow parliamentary committees to hold closed hearings into tax issues, the former chair of the House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee said last week. Margaret Hodge

  • Posted March 8, 2016
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