As the change was brought forward it would have affected people who were not expecting to be affected, or have affected them more. I think the cliff edge effect on entitlement in this case was ridicu… (View Post)

Well. This is exciting. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/09/google-unveils-mindboggling-quantum-computing-chip (View Post)

The latter is the model that is used within HMRC. Most people's records are in the normal database, accessible by everyone with any sort of access. And then there's a special database for t… (View Post)

Access is logged, I believe. But HMRC would lose most of its staff if everyone nosy enough to glance at their neighbour's tax records was sacked. There's something about the difficulty of l… (View Post)

~1g per $100 bill, so $2.3m. Worth paying for extra baggage allowance. (View Post)