Thanks, Josh. SEATTLE -- Britain on Tuesday completed the first step in its project to shift government functions to the Internet, unveiling a service built by software giant Microsoft that lets people pay taxes and farmers apply for subsidies online.
The Government Gateway is part of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's plan to get all government-related transactions moved to the Internet by 2005, said Andrew Pinder, Blair's "e-envoy" charged with implementing the strategy.
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