SAP and Deloitte winners in transition from legacy software to SaaS, which includes housing and transport ministries The UK's tax collector has awarded contracts worth up to 366 million ($461 million) in an effort to move a cluster of central government departments' ERP, HR and finance systems to the cloud and upgrade legacy software....

5.2B more thrown at the never-ending quest to modernize HMRC In 2022, the UK's tax collector put 4.5 billion ($5.9 billion) on the table to help its applications become "less dependent upon legacy technologies." The extent to which His Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) achieved that goal is debatable, but there is no doubt it intends to spend up to 5.2 billion ($6.9 billion) more to continue the job....

About half of exemption requests approved as 780,000 prepare for quarterly reporting in April The UK tax collector has exempted 661 people from moving to quarterly software-based reporting under its Making Tax Digital (MTD) scheme, about half the number who have applied....