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• CIO upfront: Employers should not rush any plan to pay staff with cryptocurrency

  There is more to the picture than the tax issue, write James Hawes and Louise Taylor of Simpson Grierson.

• NZ Gov’t takes steps to ensure ‘highly digitalised’ MNCs pay their fair share

  Will target online giants with digital tax

• IRD warns against latest sophisticated email scam

  Claims recipient is due a large tax refund, then takes them to a fraudulent site to take their credit card details

• Inland Revenue prepares for $25M information knowledge management system

  Next phase of the project will cover analytics, says Greg James, deputy commissioner transformation

• Programme steers millennials to be part of the government’s ICT and digital strategy

  Participants to the inaugural ICT and Digital GovtTech Talent Graduate Programme will work across three of seven central government agencies for two years.

• Myles Ward of healthAlliance: The road to CEO

  Myles Ward reveals what today's CTO needs to become a CEO, the role of his mentors in his career development and the need for a supportive network of your peers at every stage.

• Myles Ward: Making the move from CTO to CEO

  Talks about his transition from CTO at Inland Revenue Department to the top role at healthAlliance

• CIO Upfront: ​The main challenge is not about having too few data scientists

  'We need to broaden the base of the wider analytics community,' writes Rohan Light.

• Movers and shakers: ANZ exec is the new CTO at Inland Revenue Department

  Plus: Nigel Prince joins Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade; and new MDs at Xero and Potentia

• CTO to CEO: Myles Ward is new healthAllliance chief

  The Inland Revenue Department CTO takes the top role at the shared services organisation in November.

• Inland Revenue develops mobile app for small businesses

  Public crowdsourcing competition helped gather ideas for the myIR mobile

• Inland Revenue Department NZ talks voice biometrics

  Call resolution times for Inland Revenue Department (IRD) of New Zealand customers who have registered for its biometric service take one minute faster than those who have not registered, said IRD contact implementation service manager Jared Mortlock.

• Unisys NZ aims to change revenue mix in the next few years

  IT solutions provider Unisys currently has a revenue mix in New Zealand that sees the public sector contributing 60 per cent and the private sector 40 per cent. However, the company wants to swap those figures to 60 per cent private and 40 per cent public in the next few years.

• IRD cited for ‘effective use’ of Facebook

  A Gartner analyst singled out the Inland Revenue Department for effectively using Facebook to inform people hit by the recent earthquake about tax relief, impact of a potential loss of tax records, changes in tax status and donation opportunities.
  “This is a very good practice,” says Andrea de Maio, of the Inland Revenue - Canterbury Earthquake Facebook page. “No thrills and frills, no feedback allowed, no engagement for the sake of engagement, just a stream of very focused news and information of the kind one would expect from a revenue agency.”
  Di Maio is a vice president at Gartner and his research focuses on the public sector particularly on e-government strategies and Web 2.0.
  “A lot of government agencies around the world are using Facebook as a cooler (they wish!) alternative to their websites,” Di Maio writes in a recent blog. “As a consequence, the value added they provide is limited, which is reflected into low number of friends / followers and modest interaction.”
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• Fresh lease on life

  Legacy system has a persistent negative connotation, reinforcing the idea of a millstone around an organisation’s neck.
  The typical legacy system was developed many years ago under different business conditions with a more primitive technology — yet it (or more often part of it) is too valuable to the business to get rid of.