Overview
- The tax authority’s deal, announced Thursday, launches a decade-long program to replace legacy data silos with Quantexa’s decision platform.
- Quantexa says the system will run inside HMRC’s secure environment with HMRC as data controller, and all outputs will be transparent and auditable.
- The tools are designed to link billions of data points to flag likely fraud networks, sift whistleblower tips, and speed tasks such as matching payments sent with wrong references.
- Officials present the award to a UK firm as a shift toward domestic tech for critical systems after concerns raised by contracts like the NHS data platform built by Palantir.
- The program targets lost tax and service delays after 93,000 complaints in 2024/25, though gains in accuracy and fewer false positives will only be proven over a multi-year rollout.