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HMRC will work with software developers to bring new products to the market

15 September 2015
Issue: 4518 / Categories: News , Admin

HMRC plan to work more collaboratively with third party tax software providers.

In their recent application programme interface (API) strategy HMRC says it will take “a ‘third-party software first’ approach for businesses and agents”. The aim is to give better access to APIs. They will also share rules and logic and build “richer APIs that enable third-party products to work seamlessly with HMRC systems”.
 
In the document HMRC state they will work more closely with developers and earlier in the technology lifecycle so that they can: spend more time developing software; build a self-serve developer hub with performance dashboards standardised documentation and integration tooling to improve the experience for all developers; and publish internal and external APIs that prepopulate data and HMRC business rules to reduce errors.
 
Mark Dearnley HMRC’s chief digital and information officer said: “Our vision is to provide software developers...

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