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As part of 'Making Tax Digital' the UK will soon force people to use proprietary software to file certain types of tax return. If you disagree, think people should have control over their data, that HMRC alone should be in charge of HMRC's job, that you shouldn't have to pay random companies just to pay your own taxes, I suggest you sign this UK e-petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/769610

#UK #UKPol #software

Petition: Create a government-owned, free software for Making Tax Digital (MTD)

With the roll-out of Making Tax Digital going ahead, HMRC must provide an in-house, government-developed, fully-functional software that allows easy and confident compliance with MTD. Self-employed people should not be obliged to hand data to private companies.

Petitions - UK Parliament and UK Government
"I want your report on my desk first thing in the morning!"
"What's it about?"
"I've just told you: my desk, first thing in the morning!"
@arstechnica I really hope Tesco pursue this to the end. Could be great to have legal precident for others to do the same with Broadcom.
@arstechnica We need to do something but this doesn't seem workable. And what about the adults? It shouldn't be legal to run an unsafe social platform for anyone. Make some rules around what's safe and what isn't and enforce them. Obviously exclude small sites under a certain number of users (100k or so).
@arstechnica We need to do something but this doesn't seem workable. And what about the adults? It shouldn't be legal to run an unsafe social platform for anyone. Make some rules around what's safe and what isn't and enforce them. Obviously exclude small sites under a certain number of users (100k or so).
@fesshole that's fair, they're only soldiers if they're toast with a boiled egg
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