Millions is still being refunded to people by HMRC in overpaid pension tax, as experts call for reform to the system. New ...

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) referred itself to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on 11 separate occasions between April 2019 and April 2020 over data security incidents.

The HMRC has now been ordered to delete any data it holds on taxpayers which was obtained without their consent. Although the scale of the infringement was great — with over seven million voice ...

The ICO issued a preliminary enforcement notice to HMRC on 4 April 2019, stating the information commissioner’s initial decision to compel the department to delete all biometric data held under ...

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has reported 11 “serious” personal data incidents to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the most recent financial year, according to official figures. As ...

This week we cover the following topics: HMRC Pensions Tax Manual updates; MaPS publishes statistics on Pension Wise service; ICO guidance on processing workers’ health information; Pensions ...

In October 2018, HMRC changed the way it sought permission to collect voice IDs. And if you have called the tax hotline since then any voiceprint collected will not be included amongst those now being ...

HMRC has written to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and said it will now only keep Voice ID enrolments where it holds explicit consent.

In the case of HMRC, the ICO found it had failed to give customers sufficient information about how their biometric data would be processed, and failed to give them the chance to give or withhold ...