Spark seals $60 million IRD contract as Revera overhauls tax system
“We are delighted that the data centre's contract has been awarded to a New Zealand company."
“We are delighted that the data centre's contract has been awarded to a New Zealand company."
At present, 10 New Zealand companies have contracts related to IT portions of the transformation project.
“We should be assisting New Zealand firms through giving them a chance to compete with overseas firms when it comes to Government contracts.”
“An increasing number of New Zealand companies are also involved in critical components of the transformation process."
Inland Revenue is beginning work to explore allowing online third-party accounting software to integrate with the GST returns system.
TechnologyOne has been granted permission by the Inland Revenue Department to store data for its New Zealand customers in Australia on the TechnologyOne Cloud as a third party provider. The IRD’s approval exempts TechnologyOne customers from data sovereignty rules requiring financial records to be stored in New Zealand.
At Xerocon 2014, taking place today in Auckland, Rod Drury CEO of the firm urged partners to drive more customers to use accounting functionality online, and assured the attendees of New Zealand’s strategic importance for the company.
A $30 million contract with Assurity Consulting is an example of a growing number of opportunities for New Zealand companies in the wider sector, says Inland Revenue Minister Todd McClay.
Unisys will hire additional staff to service a contract with Inland Revenue for the provision of mainframe services, says country manager Steve Griffin.
Inland Revenue’s business transformation project, which could cost up to $1.5 billion over the next decade, is a juicy target for multinational ICT vendors.
Can large government IT department’s become breeding grounds for new start-ups? In the case of Ross Hughson, former CIO of Inland Revenue, it appears so.
An increased data sharing programme between the Ministry of Social Development and Inland Revenue will be run in-house with existing technology.
Upgrades to the student loans system at the Inland Revenue Department, on the back of the ageing FIRST platform, are proceeding to plan and will come on stream in time to serve current changes to the student loans service and recent legislative amendments, says Katrina Williams, IRD programme director, student loans.
Revenue Minister Peter Dunne has announced an amendment is to be made to tax law, clarifying that businesses will be able to claim tax deductions on failed software developments.
Inland Revenue’s new strategy to develop software for the processing of student loans to a new legislative framework will be possible within the remaining budget, says Peter Mersi, deputy commissioner for business transformation.