Every man, woman and child in the UK paid HP £21 last year

[vetran]

Every man, woman and child in the UK paid HP £21 last year

The government spends billions of pounds on IT every year. While individual projects often make the news when investigated by auditors and select committees, the overall picture is less well-known.

But it IS big business – both because of how much is spent, but also because just a few big businesses suck up very large amounts of taxpayers’ money in this area.

[Paddy]

Thats a lot of beans

[Halo Jones]

It’s the brown sauce for all the bacon rolls

[doodab]

HMRC’s second-largest supplier in 2012-13 was Mapeley Steps, a Bermuda-registered firm set up in 1999 to bid to provide outsourced management of the tax agency’s property under a private finance initiative deal. Its holding company, Mapeley, is based in Guernsey.

“The benefits of the tax position we have are handed back to the government through a lower charge we make to them every year,” said Mapeley’s then chief executive Robin Priest in 2002.

Probably a tax dodge. I think someone should report them to HMRC.