{"id":60870,"date":"2015-09-01T11:57:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T11:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=20a3ee028d1dc34edf10b5d91c026224"},"modified":"2015-09-01T11:57:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T11:57:45","slug":"news-story-hmrc-launches-ambitious-api-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=60870","title":{"rendered":"News story: HMRC launches ambitious API strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Application Programme Interface\">API<\/abbr> approach will see <abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>promoting a \u2018third-party software first\u2019 approach for businesses and agents<\/li>\n<li>giving greater access to APIs<\/li>\n<li>sharing rules and logic<\/li>\n<li>publishing performance figures <\/li>\n<li>building richer APIs that enable third party products to work seamlessly with <abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr> systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Visiting a new digital delivery centre in Telford the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, David Gauke, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We want to make tax easier to understand and simpler to engage with. That\u2019s why we\u2019re investing in <abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr>\u2019s digital capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The <abbr title=\"Application Programme Interface\">API<\/abbr> strategy recognises that it is important to work collaboratively with developers of tax software to help deliver high quality digital services for businesses and agents up and down the country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mark Dearnley, <abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr>\u2019s Chief Digital and Information Officer, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Our vision is to provide software developers with better and richer APIs that will enable them to innovate and bring more sophisticated software products to the market.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The strategy can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/hmrc-third-party-tax-software-and-api-strategy\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HM Revenue and Customs published its Third-Party Tax Software and Application Programme Interface (API) strategy today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}