Accenture has won an IT contract with HMRC to provide software development for the individual taxpayers’ digital tax accounts which are set to go live in 2018, for personal tax reporting under the Making Tax Digital initiative
Under the terms of the agreement, which runs through to June 2020, Accenture will develop, implement and maintain a secure cloud-hosted platform for individual taxpayers. The services will be provided from the Accenture delivery centre in Newcastle.
Accenture already runs the National Insurance and PAYE Service (NPS) and will now migrate the application onto a private cloud infrastructure and consolidate multiple HMRC IT systems onto a single platform, providing a single view of each individual taxpayer, effectively setting up the framework for digital tax accounts.
The contract will include the transition from a batch-oriented architecture to real-time processing. That will involve modernising the tax system’s legacy user interface with cloud technology, to provide what Accenture describes as ‘a transformed HMRC user experience’.
Mark Larsen, managing director of Accenture’s Newcastle delivery centre, said: ‘In support of HMRC’s innovative and customer-focused programme, we will deploy leading digital technologies to radically transform and re-engineer the NPS applications and architecture, placing them at the heart of taxation for individuals.’
The new contract with Accenture follows the end of HMRC’s contract with Aspire which was worth £10bn. The move to a new IT contract would expect to save HMRC 24% (£200m) a year by 2020-21.
Accenture has not yet disclosed full detail on the size of the contract.
