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5 Surprises from Building on HMRC's Making Tax Digital API
A developer shares five unexpected challenges integrating with HMRC's Making Tax Digital API, including versioning via Accept headers, mandatory fraud prevention headers, and per-endpoint version differences. The post offers practical TypeScript fixes for each issue.
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This is a niche but valuable engineering deep-dive for developers working with government APIs, highlighting the gap between modern API design and legacy government systems.
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