From 6th April 2007 H M Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are introducing a new Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) that replaces the Scheme that was started in August 1999. The new CIS provides an EDI submission service that will see the introduction of a verification service that replaces cards and certificates, and also replaces vouchers with monthly returns.

The ODEX product family provides your electronic connection to the CIS and can also integrate seamlessly with your internal systems. Files created by your payroll system can be picked up automatically by ODEX and sent to HMRC without the need for human intervention. ODEX can also be configured to connect automatically to HMRC and download new messages, which can then be extracted automatically to your internal system ready for you to import. If the messages produced by your internal system are not in the format required by the CIS, then our CIS accredited Xlate Evolution translation software can translate inbound or outbound files between your internal message format and the CIS message format.

ODEX can connect directly to the Inland Revenue using ISDN, or TCP/IP connections via a VAN. We recommend our DINET VAN for communications with the IR, as unlike some other VANs, DINET can handle both EDI and GFF format files and does not require any extra addressing information.