https://techmonitor.ai/government-computing/hmrc-lambasted-for-failures-in-making-tax-digital-scheme-as-bill-set-to-top-1-3bn

A new system designed to digitise and simplify the UK’s tax system is too expensive and complicated for purpose, a committee of MPs says. 

The bill for the “Making Tax Digital” (MTD) scheme is set to hit £1.3bn, according to a report from parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) already having spent £640m on the project. “Seven years and £640m into the Making Tax Digital programme, we are concerned [that] HMRC is also succeeding in making tax difficult,” said committee chairperson Dame Meg Hillier.