UK taxman goes chief digi officer shopping at the bank: Appoints ex-Barclays CIO

Mark Denney has left the creaking world of banking IT to join the, er, creaking world of government IT – taking the role of interim chief digital and information officer at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. He replaces HMRC's chief digital information officer, Jacky Wright, who returns to Microsoft after two years in the role …

[N2]

But

What could possibly go wrong?

[chivo243]

Love the tag line

One gets the feeling he might not give a shit about the work... only the pay?

[Anonymous Coward]

Making Tax Digital

Biggest pile of tosh anyone could dream up....... Absolute pile of shit.

Everyone in HMRC who has worked on this should be taken out and shot.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Making Tax Digital

Everyone "in senior management" maybe.

I am sure that there are many long-suffering techies who don't deserve to be in the firing line.

[N2]

Re: Making Tax Digital

Much as I agree with your sentiments, I see 2 potential issues:

1. Youre going to need a lot of bullets &

2. You'll need to include all outsourcers such as Crapita

icon - but you'll need 27 to get them all

[macjules]

Re: Making Tax Digital

Hemp old chap, hemp and lamp posts. We are civilised in the UK - we only reserve firing squads for unmitigated shits like Nigel Farage. The rest get to decorate the lamp posts of Whitehall.

[Anonymous Coward]

WTF

10 Billion. ... For what? That's my ******* taxes your spending HMRC. And then you ring me up and question me about bank interest on a bank account while you piss money down the drain.

[OldManBlueSkies]

Well designed

to sack all of the clever people and replace with their friends and family who know nothing abut IT.

[OldManBlueSkies]

I'm scared

enough of this corruption. Just because he worked as a CIO doesn't mean he knows shit. almost all CIOs know nothing because they are usually from the old boy's clubs. Sounds like more money down the drain and we will have more IR35 implementations!