own up

[DiscoStu]

Me too. My code would have sent billion pound bills to destitute grannies.

And killed them.

Anything to reduce the cost of the state pension. You're hired.

[Doggy Styles]

I wish my code was that good.

Me too. My code would have sent billion pound bills to destitute grannies.

And killed them.

[HairyArsedBloke]

“Examples of errors include people having their personal tax allowances removed, being placed on higher tax codes or even having a '1' inserted in front of their salary, erroneously inflating up their taxable income by £100,000.”

These would be covered by some pretty basic test cases.

I wish my code was that good.

[OwlHoot]

If the errors are mostly in the state's favour, I wouldn't put it past the last Government to have had the records tweaked deliberately to up the estimated tax take so they could release over-optimistic estimates of revenues before the election and thus make more convincing their claims that a recovery was underway.

[Mich the Tester]

“Examples of errors include people having their personal tax allowances removed, being placed on higher tax codes or even having a '1' inserted in front of their salary, erroneously inflating up their taxable income by £100,000.”

These would be covered by some pretty basic test cases.

Sorry, I’m not available, I’m not cheap and I’m not UK resident (or Bob).

[ratewhore]

Don't have SC, "resident in UK for 5 years", don't think I will ever get SC.

Wouldn't worry about it, given the future state of public sector, and also that every man and his dog has SC...

[alreadypacked]

Don't have SC, "resident in UK for 5 years", don't think I will ever get SC.

[Doggy Styles]

It wasn't me.

[ratewhore]

Who worked on this?

Another public sector IT system going tits up. Surely not...

For completeness, I never worked on this.