Stuart 4d ago

I asked HMRC what open source software there was for "Making Tax Digital". Their answer: use their software-finding tool. I'd asked them the question because their tool doesn't make that information available.

Does such a thing exist?

Show threadMx "Vote Green" Fraud
@slowe do you know of https://github.com/ac000/itsa ?
GitHub - ac000/itsa: Command line client to the UK's HMRC Make Tax Digital for Income Tax Self-Assessment API

Command line client to the UK's HMRC Make Tax Digital for Income Tax Self-Assessment API - ac000/itsa

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Show threadStuart 22h ago

@mxfraud I didn't.
https://github.com/ac000/libmtdac/discussions/18 reinforces, to me, that HMRC really designed this whole thing (through their choices) for commercial software.

GovUK should be providing their own basic, open source, free, implementation.

Show threadMx "Vote Green" Fraud21h ago

@slowe I know for a fact that they did.

The people that made the rules do not understand software, let alone open source.
I also dont believe they would care if they understood.

Show threadOliver Blanthorn11h ago

@slowe good god. 9 months of emails and meetings per user

presumably whoever designed that process got a knighthood for it

@mxfraud