This week's opinion

Like me you probably spent much of last week trying to get to grips with the implications of the long-awaited HMRC digital strategy documents. On page 8 of this week’s Taxation  Rebecca Benneyworth explains in the first of an occasional series of articles what it means in practice.

I won’t steal Rebecca’s thunder so will leave her to summarise the key developments. I will just mention a couple of angles here. The first is data security. When discussing the documents with colleagues data security was mentioned as a major concern by two people. They are both of the internet generation but were entirely opposed to having to use a smartphone app to record data because of concerns about the ease with which data can be hacked. The consultation does deal briefly with data security but mainly from the HMRC end of the transaction. It stresses that businesses...