IRD's business transformation project seen coming in under $1 billion

IRD's business transformation project seen coming in under $1 billion
Paul McBeth
By Paul McBeth Nov. 11 (BusinessDesk) - The Inland Revenue Department's new tax service software serving as the backbone to overhaul the tax department's ageing information technology infrastructure and update its processes to be more customer focused has brought the forecast cost of the project to below $1 billion and in a shorter timeframe. The tax department had initially scoped the project's cost at between $1.3 billion and $1.9 billion, and has revised that down due to Colorado-based Fast Enterprises' out-of-the-box software, which i...