Key Brexit Software Won’t Be Ready on Time, Developers Warn
- HMRC drawing up contingency plans to deal with disruption
- Specifications of systems coming too late for suppliers
This article is for subscribers only.
Vital software needed to keep goods flowing after Brexit won’t be ready in time because the U.K. government has not given developers the information they need, according to a trade group.
The Association of Freight Software Suppliers, whose members develop programs that plug businesses into the government’s customs systems, has written to the U.K. tax authority warning that the industry doesn’t have enough time to build and test new software by the end of the Brexit transition period on Dec. 31.