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HMRC has shifted half its IT systems to the cloud

IT modernisation project includes embrace of AI tools to automate admin.

HMRC has shifted half its IT systems to the cloud
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HMRC has decommissioned or shifted more than half of its IT systems to the cloud as part of a billion-pound modernisation project, and it hopes a major AWS contract will speed things along further.

The UK’s tax collector shared several updates on its modernisation ahead of the one-year mark of its five-year tech transformation roadmap, also including the rollout of a synthetic data-powered AI sandbox.

Chief Executive JP Marks said HMRC was “in a stronger position” a year into the programme, raising its technical health maturity from 3 to 3.3 out of 5, according to Gartner’s PAID framework.

The update said: "Already over half of HMRC’s services and underlying IT have been either decommissioned or moved from on-site servers to secure cloud hosting."

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