An article in el Reg today says HMRC is planning to spend £5.2B *more* to complete modernisation of their tech.
For a little bit of context, the BBC annual plan for 2024/5 says the total spend on tech will be £180M which, assuming it's titled correctly, includes everything from HR & business systems to running & distributing all our online media.
How in the hell are HMRC going to spend almost 29 year's worth of our online budget *just* to modernise? That's nuts, surely?
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/hmrc_dalas_2
@tdp_org what on earth are they doing? According to the quick Google I did that’s 4 year’s R&D budget for Apple. I’m sure tax is very complex but I can’t believe it’s more complex than developing multiple operating systems and pieces of cutting edge hardware.