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HMRC website to migrate to Gov.uk

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1st Nov 2012
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HMRC confirmed that its website will move to the new Gov.uk platform by March next year. 

Despite criticism the new website got from AccountingWEB and UK Business Forum members, HMRC will be one of many government departmental websites and agencies migrating to the new website before the end of next year.

According to a Cabinet Office spokesperson, "The plan for these websites is for corporate content and most of the detailed guidance to be on Gov.uk by March 2013, with the remainder being moved by December 2013." 

There had been a longstanding plan to consolidate business support information on the BusinessLink website, and this continued through to the new Gov.uk project when it was decided to retire Businesslink.gov.uk for cost reasons.

When the Gov.uk site launched last week, Elaine Clark from Cheapaccounting.co.uk started a UKBF forum thread that flagged up factual mistakes and valuable information the BusinessLink that disappeared in the move. AccountingWEB members voiced concerns about the same scenario happening to HMRC's data when it gets redirected to Gov.uk. 

Member mackthefork was already making preparations. "In anticipation of HMRC becoming entirely useless, does anyone know if the manuals are in print anywhere and if so where they can be purchased from?" he asked. 

Exetor was more hopeful: "We had just better pray that all of the brickbats they have received on the initial set up make them more risk averse and very careful and therefore willing to spend a little more time, effort and if needs be money to ensure that the HMRC website isn't equally as dysfunctional after the transfer."

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