HMRC To Use ‘Web Robots’ To Hunt Down Tax Cheats :: Computing Unplugged

Thursday, June 16, 2011

HMRC To Use ‘Web Robots’ To Hunt Down Tax Cheats

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is planning to deploy bots to track down people who aren’t reporting all their income. The bots will trawl through such sites as Google and eBay to find taxable activity.