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Tax breaks expected for high-tech sector
News The most recent report suggested how a new regime might apply to technical know-how and brand names, which in the past have been treated as good will and hence excluded from any tax breaks. The high-tech overhaul was not written into the March...
[November 26, 2001, 17:19]
Dubai tempts outsourcing businesses with tax breaks
News The world's first outsourcing free-zone opened on Tuesday. Dubai Outsourcing Zone is the latest venture from the people who four years ago launched Dubai's Internet City, which now hosts 600 companies employing 20,000 knowledge workers.
[June 16, 2004, 10:25]
India's Wipro to create hundreds of UK tech jobs
News Indian IT giant Wipro is set to create hundreds of jobs in the UK by taking advantage of government tax breaks and opening a low-cost regional software development facility outside London and the south-east.
[March 25, 2008, 11:10]
Gloomy expectations for budget from tech industry
News The tech industry has just two words for Chancellor Gordon Brown as he prepares to delivers this afternoon's budget: tax breaks. If the chancellor does take pity on the ailing tech sector, the most important thing he can do is simplify the tax...
[March 7, 2001, 13:24]
In defence of outsourcing
Talkback End goverment tax breaks for companies who send American jobs offshore. I'm not against big business, but where is the 'trickle down' that's supposed to come to the taxpayer from the benefit of the tax breaks etc.that these companies get?
[January 26, 2004, 11:32]
MEP calls for unmetered access in UK
News Gordon Brown has promised to provide PCs for £5.00 to people on low incomes and, at the CBI conference in Birmingham Tuesday, announced tax breaks for entrepreneurs. As for giving tax breaks to entrepreneurs, whilst this may encourage business...
[November 3, 1999, 8:00]
Romania leads outsourcing charge
News China, while not providing quite such extensive tax breaks as Dubai, where companies pay no corporate tax and their employees pay no income tax, does offer some tax breaks to foreign companies looking to offshore operations there.
[June 16, 2004, 17:25]
R&D tax credit to be reformed
News Earlier this week, Intellect urged the government to increase the value of R&D tax breaks, claiming that on most projects it isn't possible to claw back more than 5 percent of the full cost. The government is rejigging the way it gives tax credits...
[December 10, 2003, 16:00]
South Africa pushes for ICT outsourcing
News South Africa's government sees foreign investment in support centres as a key opportunity to train tens of thousands of unemployed people — Virgin Mobile's call centre there is entirely staffed by the formerly unemployed, for example — and is...
[December 11, 2006, 15:45]
Chancellor offers some hope to beleaguered tech sector
News There will also be tax breaks for companies wishing to offer employees shares although the Chancellor has decided not to scrap national insurance on share options as hoped for by many industry pundits.
[March 7, 2001, 17:33]
3Com to shut Dublin plant
Talkback Will they pay back the "enterprise" grants and tax breaks that enticed them there in the first place? I doubt it !
[September 11, 2003, 11:28]
Chinese whispers across London airwaves
Blog This covers a multitude of sins and helpful tax breaks, but gets particularly interesting when you consider wireless regulation. It is a useful convention in international affairs that anywhere in the world, a country's embassy is its sovereign...
[January 21, 2009, 18:02]
India mulls tax-break extension for outsourcers
News Nick Mayes, senior consultant at PAC, said in a statement: "Phasing out the tax breaks will not cause the Indian suppliers to up sticks and make wholesale moves elsewhere. India's fears that other countries are undercutting its dominance of the...
[May 7, 2008, 9:16]
Treasury denies new tax on PCs
News The changes in the Finance Bill are being brought in to replace the Home Computing Initiative (HCI), a scheme that gave tax breaks to employers who provided PCs to employees. The Treasury has denied reports that the current Finance Bill contains...
[May 3, 2006, 11:05]
Will the Budget boost PC-employee scheme?
News The scheme gives tax breaks to firms and employees when a PC is loaned to a worker for home use. The Budget could be used as a platform to help raise awareness of HCI and its far-reaching benefits," said Bill Kirwan, PwC tax director.
[March 16, 2004, 13:20]
Budget to promote e-business
News Brown is expected to expand tax breaks on share options even beyond the package announced in November's pre-budget report. Brown announced last year that small, high-risk firms will be able to offer low-tax options worth up to £100,000 each to up...
[March 21, 2000, 13:41]
Gordon Brown dubbed 'analogue Chancellor'
News But in the budget in March, Brown scrapped the tax breaks, so that businesses that loan PCs to their staff for personal use at home will now face a tax charge of up to £200 per employee as well as national insurance.
[May 8, 2006, 9:55]
Treasury looks to replace HCI
News In his budget speech last month, Gordon Brown axed the scheme, which gave tax breaks for businesses that provided employees with PCs. Under the HCI, employees could take out tax-free loans from their companies to buy home computers.
[April 3, 2006, 17:30]
Firms ask government for more help getting online
News Blunkett reiterates the government's commitment to technology, highlighting the tax breaks given to small businesses by the chancellor Gordon Brown in last month's budget and a £25 million training scheme to give job seekers basic computer training.
[April 6, 2000, 15:05]
Government accepts broadband recommendations
News However, the government has rejected the BSG's recommendation that it should provide tax breaks to encourage investors to supply the money needed to create broadband networks. This commitment should see the government working closely with digital...
[December 3, 2001, 17:17]
