Tag: HMRC
8 articles tagged HMRC
HMRC awards Quantexa £175m, 10-year deal for AI fraud detection
HMRC has signed a £175m, 10-year partnership with UK AI firm Quantexa to unify fragmented tax data and target large-scale VAT and payroll fraud at national scale.
HMRC awards £175m, 10-year AI contract to British scale-up Quantexa
HMRC has signed a 10-year, £175m deal with London-based Quantexa to use AI for fraud detection and to clear the backlog that drove a 33% rise in complaints.
HMRC scales Microsoft Copilot to 28,000 staff with 50,000 target
HMRC's first Chief AI Officer outlines a rollout of Microsoft 365 Copilot to 28,000 staff with plans to extend to 50,000, alongside agentic complaint-handling pilots.
HMRC's AI push is creating VAT specialist jobs, not eliminating them
VAT investigations into large UK businesses jumped 31% to 11,894 as HMRC's AI sharpens legal-interpretation challenges — driving demand for human advisers.
HMRC rolls Microsoft Copilot out to 28,000 staff after Whitehall trial
HM Revenue and Customs licenses Copilot for tens of thousands of officials and prepares agentic features, citing 26 minutes saved per user per day.
One in four UK sole traders now use AI for tax advice
Starling Bank research finds 26% of sole traders have used AI for Making Tax Digital guidance, with 88% trusting the answers, as new compliance rules drive adoption.
