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Self-employed Leading Teleworking Charge
News Working from home is on the rise in the UK, though it's still largely for the self-employed. Teleworking, however, remains largely the domain of the self-employed: 62 percent of teleworkers are self-employed and 41 percent of self-employed people...
[October 6, 2005, 10:30]
Self-employed Leading Teleworking Charge
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[October 11, 2005, 12:29]
Self-Employed Immigrants: An Analysis Of Recent Data
White Papers Self-employment has traditionally represented and continues to be an important route for immigrants to enter the American economic mainstream and improve their socioeconomic standing. This paper identifies the factors that influence the self...
[June 29, 2005, 0:00]
Inland Revenue Adjusts IR35 Guidelines
News IR35 campaigners have welcomed changes made by the Inland Revenue in the way it assesses whether someone is genuinely self-employed -- a move that could mark a thawing in relations between IT contractors and the tax inspectors.
[May 16, 2002, 14:35]
News Roundup: IR35 In The High Court
News At the High Court this week, a body representing the UK's self-employed IT contractors have been arguing that the government's IR35 tax rules are illegal. The government claims that IR35 was brought in to stop the "Friday to Monday" syndrome...
[March 16, 2001, 10:50]
Contractors Lose IR35 Appeal
News The Court of Appeal ruled on Friday morning that IR35, the controversial tax on self-employed contractors, is not illegal, rejecting claims from the Professional Contractors Group (PCG) that the legislation broke European law.
[December 21, 2001, 10:55]
IR35 Campaigners Hit The Road
News Self-employed IT contractors are being encouraged to attend a series of seminars to learn how to comply with the controversial IR35 tax rules. Now Shout99, a Web site for self-employed workers and small businesses, is trying to bring contractors...
[May 9, 2001, 13:45]
How Will The Election Affect IR35?
News The government claims that IR35 was brought in to stop the "Friday to Monday" syndrome -- where IT workers resign their salaried job only to carry on doing the same work, but as a self-employed contractor.
[May 19, 2001, 10:06]
IR35 Battle Moves To The Court Of Appeal
News The PCG, a body which represents self-employed workers, is unhappy with the conclusion of a recent judicial review into IR35, which concluded that the government was not breaking European law by introducing the tax.
[August 28, 2001, 10:18]
IR35 Could Cost Companies Billions In Benefits
News Mr Justice Burton, who is hearing a judicial review brought by the Professional Contractors Group (PCG), said in court that a self-employed contractor who was treated as an employee for tax purposes by the Inland Revenue should also be entitled to...
[March 21, 2001, 7:31]
Teleworking: Don't Believe The Hype
News The study, released this week, claims previous investigations into the issue have artificially inflated numbers of teleworkers by including tradesmen and other self-employed people who happen to sometimes use a computer and phone in their work.
[September 8, 2006, 13:55]
Labour Wades In To Delayed IR35 Appeal
News At a debate last week, the paymaster general, Dawn Primarolo, was questioned by Labour MP David Drew about IR35 -- which treats some self-employed contractors as employees, rather than businesses, for tax purposes.
[November 20, 2001, 16:54]
Budget 2002: Disappointment As Chancellor Fails To Axe IR35
News Both the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and the Professional Contractors Group (PCG) have urged Brown to bring an end to IR35, which has been blamed for driving thousands of self-employed IT workers overseas or out of business.
[April 17, 2002, 17:28]
The Effects Of The 1986 And 1993 Tax Reforms On Self-Employment
White Papers Using the 1986 and 1993 tax rate reforms as natural experiments allows for the identification of the effect of taxes on the choice to become self-employed. The findings of this paper indicate that marginal and average tax rates are negatively...
[May 31, 2005, 0:00]
IR35 Could Rob Britain Of The Next Microsoft
News The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) believes that IR35 -- a tax which critics argue imposes an unfair burden on self-employed contractors -- is illegal, and is pushing this claim at a judicial review at the High Court this week.
[March 15, 2001, 6:24]
Chancellor Urged To Ditch IR35
News Both organisations believe that IR35 -- under which some self-employed workers are taxed at a higher rate because the Inland Revenue decides they are effectively full-time workers -- discriminates against small businesses and is unfair and...
[March 28, 2002, 16:59]
PCG: New Case Law Will Defeat IR35
News The PCG is hopeful that, once it has been established in law how real-world technology companies use self-employed workers, legitimate firms should not be affected by IR35. For example, under IR35 a contractor may not be defined as self-employed if...
[December 21, 2001, 13:33]
IR35 Latest: Contractors Face Tax Chaos
News The PCG, whose evidence to the judicial review has concentrated on how IT contractors are disadvantaged by IR35, claims that the tax is illegal because it puts an unfair burden on self-employed contractors, who are effectively treated as employees...
[March 15, 2001, 14:08]
Date Set For IR35 Appeal
News At the judicial review in March, the PCG claimed that IR35 constituted illegal state aid because self-employed workers would be disadvantaged compared to big consultancies when trying to win a contract.
[November 27, 2001, 14:15]
Blair Sets Pace For Wired Administration
News Cumbria Council are working with BT to develop multimedia kiosks to deliver local information, Cable and Wireless are working on a secure intranet for national government and Microsoft are working on an interactive form that is designed to enable...
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