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Insight Legal now recognised by HMRC for making Tax Digital Compliant Software


Independent software company, Insight Legal Software has today announced it has been formally recognised by HMRC’s list of VAT compatible software products, ahead of the upcoming Making Tax Digital (MTD) regulation coming into effect on 1st April 2019. MTD is part of the government’s initiative to make it easier


for businesses and sole operators to ensure they get their tax right and keep on track of all of their affairs. Once this regulation comes into effect, all VAT returns for businesses with a taxable turnover over the VAT threshold will now have to be processed electronically via a recognised and compliant MTD integration service. The recognition comes as the company continuously


monitor for any changes within the regulatory landscape. Insight Legal continues to ensure that it is responding and reflecting any changes in the sector


with regular, essential product or system updates. The MTD compliant integration to the software will be released in February and will feature everything required to record, assemble and upload user VAT data to the HMRC. These updates will ensure that Insight Legal is supporting the MTD compliance of its customers, helping all of its users to efficiently adapt their processes quickly with very little disruption. “It is now crucial more than ever for businesses to check


the status of their systems to ensure their legal software has the controls in place to maintain an efficient and compliant operation once the MTD initiative takes effect,” comments CEO, Brian Welsh. “This latest enhancement to Insight Legal’s suite of solutions will provide both new and existing customers with the ability to remain MTD compliant when operating their practice and case management software.”


Proact transforms IT architecture to support growth initiatives at Howard Kennedy


As a growing business, Howard Kennedy required a partner that could help deliver huge digital transformation projects. Based in London, the law firm provides a variety of legal services, from financial services to real estate, and works with entrepreneurial businesses, funders and individuals. Howard Kennedy sought a service provider with solid experience in the legal sector and who also had advanced technical skills. Proact fit the bill and could deliver on the firm’s main aim which was to replace its ageing storage systems, in both its primary and secondary data centres, with next generation, fully redundant and highly performant technology. The organisation’s existing NetApp storage arrays were also coming to the end of their support cycle but due to rising support costs, it was impractical to extend


this support any further. Proact developed a solution. Proact carried out a performance review of Howard Kennedy’s existing systems to establish a clear idea of capacity, bandwidth and IOPS requirements, ultimately ensuring that the new solution was what the business needed. With these findings in mind, a holistic solution was designed by Proact’s experts which offered a high performance, highly available storage and a compute infrastructure that could cope with future demands. “It’s a pleasure to work with Proact. These projects have significantly improved our IT capacity and performance, ensuring the underlying infrastructure supports our 2020 vision of growth via acquisitions, with a fixed monthly cost and guaranteed cost per GB for any expansion,” says Clive Knott, IT Director at Howard Kennedy.


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