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Kicking and and screaming into the century of the fruitbat.....
"The Revenue has indicated it will be moving away from Microsoft and towards Google Apps for document sharing and collaboration."
And yet for us agents and "customers" there is still so much that you can't request/communicate by email, or messages sent via a secure portal and must resort to sitting on hold, or sending snail mail...
Do HMRC plan to put UK taxpayer data on a US company's servers?
If all HMRC stores on Google's servers is their own guidance (which I find much harder to search successfully for what I want since it migrated to gov.uk) then fair enough.
If they are planning to hold any details of UK residents' and businesses' tax affairs on servers belonging to a US company then I am very worried indeed!
We have already seen plenty of cases where US authorities believe they have jurisdiction over actions carried out in other countries, and I am sure they would not hesitate to subpoena a US registered company like Google to pass on any confidential info held on British citizens if they felt it was in their interpretation of US interests.