Policy paper

HMRC’s Strategic Approach to External Integration

This document sets out HMRC’s vision for External Integration including how it intends to work with the software sector.

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This document sets out HMRC’s approach to external technical integration, providing detail on HMRC’s relationship and ways of working with software providers. The approach builds on HMRC’s longstanding ambition to make it easier for customers to meet their tax and customs obligations through the software products they already use and aims to respond to growing demands for increased data sharing from software providers that support UK growth. This document focuses on external APIs as they are the current core enabler of a thriving software market, contributing to HMRC’s strategic objectives to deliver a seamless, automated tax and customs system.

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Published 26 March 2026

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