NCTS Downtime Scheduled for 1 September 2025

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Niamh O'Connor
15 August 2025

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HMRC has advised of scheduled downtime for the New Computerised Transit System (NCTS) while system maintenance activities are completed. 

Downtime is scheduled as follows:   

Monday, 1st September 2025, from 21:00 to 23:00. 

 

Impact: 

NCTS GB and NCTS XI data submitted during this downtime period will be held and processed once the maintenance activity has concluded and the service returns to normal 

 

NCTS service availability and status are published at the following link:  NCTS service availability page  

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