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Ready for Live: Digital Self-Assessment

Posted by: Chris Mitchell, Posted on: 25 March 2015 - Categories: Transformation

The Digital Self-Assessment service has passed its live Digital by Default Service Standard Assessment. You can now access this via your tax dashboard online. It will make self-assessment fully digital...

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Weekend links: Next Generation Testing, UK Trade and Investment, and more

Posted by: Carrie Barclay, Posted on: 19 April 2014 - Categories: GDS team
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...interesting speakers at the Data Storytelling event at the National Audit Office this week. The BIS Internal Communications team were in attendance. Don't forget to sign up to email alerts....

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Guest post: A year on GOV.UK - HMRC's experience

Posted by: Robin Riley, Posted on: 3 March 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK
A year on GOV.UK – HMRC’s experience

...pages on GOV.UK. The sites are very different so it's not always possible to make a direct page-to-page mapping, but we can get pretty close. Content Old HMRC site* New...

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This week at GDS

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 23 August 2013 - Categories: GDS team

...have to touch, so when they get a call they can allocate it to a particular topic, and they've recently just had to add a button where you can just...

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Moving ‘Inside Government’ – HMRC’s experience

Posted by: Robin Riley, Posted on: 1 March 2013 - Categories: GOV.UK

...was like. Yesterday the corporate web presence of HM Revenue and Customs went live on Inside Government, exactly one year to the day since the beta of Inside Government went...

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Marking one year since the Inside Government beta

Posted by: Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 28 February 2013 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK

A year ago today we launched the beta of Inside Government on GOV.UK - a working, public demo of a product which to many people had previously seemed unimaginable. The site was a live test of what multiple departments sharing …

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Iterating the trade tariff tool with HMRC

Posted by: Chris Heathcote - Product Manager for Accessibility Monitoring, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 9 November 2012 - Categories: GOV.UK

One of the tools we’ve created on GOV.UK is the Trade Tariff tool. It contains up-to-date and historical information on the duty you have to pay when importing and exporting goods outside the UK and the EU. The tool lets …

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We are not the first to tread this path

Posted by: David Mann, Posted on: 9 May 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

...DEFRA Defra relaunched their website based on WordPress, an open source platform. You can read Simon Everest’s presentation here on how and why DEFRA made this choice. Alpha.gov.uk is built...

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