Now here's a novel idea: Digitising Victorian-era stamp duty machines | The Register

Office of Tax Simplification wants to scrap 'anachronistic and cumbersome' process

Government tech often gets slagged off for being old and clunky. But spare a thought for the folks issuing stamp duty, who have to handle machines from the 1870s which "close down" at 2pm every day to be cleaned.…

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