Shaping your World
We collaborate as a group, within UK Government and its agencies, and internationally, to set the agenda and shape legislation and regulation so that they can be implemented successfully by our customers using our solutions.
BASDA shares knowledge and experience and offers peer to peer networking within our member organisation. We focus on our member community, supporting members in becoming more efficient and effective in today’s highly competitive market place.
Members who become most involved can make a real difference, helping their organisations become more successful and also evolving their own experience, skills and career development.
How we influence:
Industry Voice: Championing the issues that matter to members to protect the interests of their organisations and customers.
Interest Groups: Collaborating around key issues, sharing a wealth of knowledge and experience to shape the agenda.
More effective business development: Early-mover advantage on efficient development to support legislative changes.
Talent development and business networks: Expanding contacts and collaboration with peers and business partners.
More cost-effective technical development: Cost and time-savings in bringing software to market.
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BASDA: A quarter century of influence
Formed in 1993, BASDA has helped shape policy, legislation and regulation for over 25 years. Below is a timeline of just some of the initiatives where BASDA has been involved. Our focus changes over time and is always directed by what’s important to our members and their customers.
2015 to date
- BREXIT.
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
- Construction Industry Scheme (CIS).
- Interoperability Charter.
- Stakeholder Pensions.
- Faster Payments.
- Making Tax Digital.
- Data Security.
- Implementation of Workplace Pension Reform (Automatic Enrolment).
- Payments and Liabilities Viewer API.
- Future of Payroll.
- Negotiations with HMRC concerning the submission of electronic amendments to CIS Returns from integrated ERP systems.
- Reverse Charge VAT for the construction industry.
2010 - 2015
- Implementation of PAYE RTI.
- Participated in consultations with the Construction Industry Training Board on the proposed simplification of the CITB Levy.
- Launch of the Interoperability Charter at the House of Commons which became the foundation for the Interoperability Charter launched in 2014 by the UK National E-invoicing Forum that was signed by a number of Government Departments and businesses (www.uknef.org.uk).
- BASDA took international action to support a member facing a spurious Patent infringement action. Without the successful action taken by BASDA, this Patent would have had significant negative impacts on all BASDA members in the area of open database connectivity.
- Participated in formal consultations with HMRC on improving the operation of the CIS tax scheme.
- Participated in formal consultations with HMRC on changing the VAT treatment of Prompt Payment Discounts.
2001 - 2010
- BASDA launched its Green Charter.
- The BASDA Code of Practice was created to set quality standards for the development and supply of business software.
- BASDA e-Bis XML standard launched to enable e-commerce through the online exchange of orders and invoices.
- Payrolling Benefits – involvement in a number of iterations of the payrolling of benefits proposals.
2000 - 1993
- Y2K drove many organisations to implement new Accounting and ERP systems – BASDA provided advice on “How to buy a Software System”.
- Provided advice and accreditation for how business software systems should handle the launch and adoption of the Euro
- Implementation of Workplace Pension Reform (Automatic Enrolment).
- BASDA members were involved in the definition of the PAPDIS data interchange standard between payroll and pension providers to facilitate the reporting of new members and contributions.
- BASDA (The Business Application Software Developers Association) formed to bring the industry together to speak with one voice around proposed VAT changes which would have had major impacts for our customers and their business systems.
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