Capgemini wins deal with UK tax collector worth up to £574M

The UK tax collector is awarding Capgemini a contract worth up to £574 million ($741 million) to run legacy tax management systems until 2029, one of which was first built under a controversial arrangement that was supposed to end in 2020. His Majesty's Revenue & Customs has published a contract award notice saying the French …

[Dr Who]

New initialism

WCPGW?

Guesses in the comments.

[elsergiovolador]

Trickle

Don't worry folks, this money will trickle down one day!

[Yorick Hunt]

Re: Trickle

It's already "trickled" down in a torrent, straight down the gutter to nourish the pond scum responsible.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Trickle

> It's already "trickled" down in a torrent, straight down the gutter to nourish the pond scum responsible.

Alas poor Yorick, did you fail a job interview at Capgemini?

Or do you think that anyone who works on a Government IT contract is "pond scum"?

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Trickle

>Or do you think that anyone who works on a Government IT contract is "pond scum"?

Well not everyone, they do face recruitment difficulties and the water quality issues in the UK has made natural pond scum rarer

So many of the roles won't have been filled with genuine pond scum but will have had to be outsourced to less qualified aquatic contaminants

[Yorick Hunt]

Re: Trickle

Whether I ever applied for work with them is irrelevant; what's of concern here is your lack of comprehension ability.

Do you seriously think that anyone working at Capgemini is getting any of the spoils of this contract? Name one large contract in history where the staff were the major beneficiaries.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Trickle

> what's of concern here is your lack of comprehension ability.

I think you need to realise that you have to write what you mean and not rely on clairvoyance on the part of your readers.

[tin 2]

Our government departments need to stop spending such a ridiculous amount of money on shite IT. There it is, that's the take.

[Anonymous Coward]

Flat tax rate

Scrap all of the funny little codes and use a tax rate for everything of 35%

Rid of NI

Just 1 simple tax

Save billions in running this web of tax loopholes

Simplify

[CowHorseFrog]

Re: Flat tax rate

Not only that, think of all the paper they will save...

[MrGreen]

Re: Flat tax rate

The UK tax code is 10 million words - 21,000 pages. To put that number in some kind of perspective, the Complete Works of Shakespeare is about 880,000 words. So our tax code is about 12 times the length of the Complete Works of Shakespeare. It's about 12.5 times the number of words in the Bible (800,000 words).

All by design.

It’s how they justify robbing you of all that tax, but it actually goes straight to the companies they own shares in.

Why do you think nothing is actually changed by Parliament.

Chief Architect of red tape, laws and big government was Tony Blair. He’s amassed a personal fortune of over £100 million from it.

[Andy The Hat]

Re: Flat tax rate

IIRC the tax rules filled two volumes until Maggie got her paws on it when it bulged into 5 volumes (a lot of that was due to harmonisation across Europe). Tony decided to balloon things into 9 volumes.

The big advantage for the rich barstewards is that more rules there are, the more loopholes you can build in for your tax accountant to use. If things were simple and we all paid a flat 34% or whatever, how could the rich avoid tax? Just think of all the poor HMRC and tax accountants that would be out of a job ...

[CowHorseFrog]

How exactly do they compute its 574 and not 573 or 575 ?