{"id":1294,"date":"2016-05-03T10:38:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T10:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2016-05-03T10:38:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T10:38:34","slug":"hmrc-to-take-tech-expansion-to-the-next-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/hmrc-to-take-tech-expansion-to-the-next-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"HMRC to take tech expansion to the next stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following ongoing attempts to \u2018make take digital\u2019 and join the technological revolution, HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) has announced plans to invest \u00a3215m in managed desktop services and cloud collaboration.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The ambitious plans, which could see more dramatic changes to HMRC systems, extend to the building, deployment, maintenance and support of user devices such as videoconference equipment, apps and desktop technology \u2013 which could all become commonplace in the tax world in coming years.<\/p>\n<p>HMRC is hoping to outsource to the production of the technology to the tune of \u00a3200m.<\/p>\n<p>It also hopes to invest around \u00a315m in cloud computing and sharing solutions, which HMRC hopes will \u201ctransform working practices and improve current processes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransitioning to a cloud-based solution is expected to yield material commercial benefits, the adoption of which will simplify the existing desktop environment,\u201d said a prior information notice published by the taxman.<\/p>\n<p>HMRC said that it is considering a &#8220;wholesale transition&#8221; to cloud-based collaborative solutions in the future \u2013 which could mean another dramatic tech shake-up of tax systems in coming years, to complement recent plans to \u2018make tax digital\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>HMRC claimed that &#8220;is currently undergoing a significant period of transformation,&#8221; and taxpayers should be wary of how any potential changes could affect them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following ongoing attempts to \u2018make take digital\u2019 and join the technological revolution, HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) has announced plans to invest \u00a3215m in managed desktop services and cloud collaboration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}