NCTS Planned Outage Saturday 6th April 2024

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Niamh O'Connor
18 March 2024

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HMRC will be carrying out essential maintenance to the New Computerised Transit System (NCTS) on Saturday 06th April 2024, 

This will affect any NCTS GB and XI data being submitted during this period via the NCTS GB and XI service channels. Data will be held and processed once the maintenance activity has concluded and the service is available again. 


Please see the NCTS service availability page to check for the latest updates on the system availability status. 


https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/new-computerised-transit-system-service-availability


HMRC apologises for any inconvenience. 


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