Legacy tech is the gift that keeps billing for UK's tax collector

£5.2B more thrown at the never-ending quest to modernize HMRC
In 2022, the UK's tax collector put £4.5 billion ($5.9 billion) on the table to help its applications become 'less dependent upon legacy technologies.' The extent to which His Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) achieved that goal is debatable, but there is no doubt it intends to spend up to £5.2 billion ($6.9 billion) more to continue the job.…