Chancellor offers some hope to beleaguered tech sector
News First impressions suggest the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, has smiled kindly on tech companies as his budget offers tax relief in a variety of forms. The Chancellor proposes to offer tax relief on firms' intellectual property, or 'IP', which is likely...
[March 7, 2001, 17:33]
Tax change threatens UK tech entrepreneurs
News The changes, announced on Tuesday, will penalise people who start technology companies, by abolishing so-called "taper relief" on capital gains tax. Darling is to abolish the taper relief scheme, under which company investors have paid as little as...
[October 12, 2007, 15:13]
Tax breaks expected for high-tech sector
News Gordon Brown is expected to unveil new UK tax laws in his annual PBR report, which will recognise technological know-how as intellectual property (IP), and hence provide tax relief for companies purchasing brand names or software development...
[November 26, 2001, 17:19]
Gloomy expectations for budget from tech industry
News Internet analyst with research firm, Durlacher, Nick Gibson, reiterates the call for tax relief. The tech industry has just two words for Chancellor Gordon Brown as he prepares to delivers this afternoon's budget: tax breaks.
[March 7, 2001, 13:24]
Brown unveils tax-cuts for startups
News Chancellor Gordon Brown on Tuesday announced a tax-relief package aimed at encouraging Internet startups, with industry observers saying the tax cuts were much as expected. Brown said up to 15 key employees will be able to receive tax-friendly...
[March 21, 2000, 15:24]
US Government 'lobbied EC' over Microsoft fine
Talkback US tax dollars should rather be spent on antitrust enforcement, and generating relief for the excesses of Microsoft on the American market. The exchange of Bill Gate's support for W's first election for dropping the Microsoft Antitrust suit was the...
[September 27, 2006, 11:48]
US Report: Senate passes Net tax ban
News Instead, the Senate on Wednesday passed language that would deny tax relief to companies that openly display pornography on their Web sites. The Internet Tax Freedom Act cleared the upper chamber after nearly a week of debate in which members...
[October 9, 1998, 10:42]
A Year Ago: Brown unveils the e-budget
News Chancellor Gordon Brown Tuesday announced a tax-relief package aimed at encouraging Internet startups, as well as a number of measures aimed at stimulating UK business and entrepreneurship in the IT sector.
[March 21, 2001, 6:05]
Brown unveils the e-budget
News Chancellor Gordon Brown Tuesday announced a tax-relief package aimed at encouraging Internet startups, as well as a number of measures aimed at stimulating UK business and entrepreneurship in the IT sector.
[March 21, 2000, 16:43]
EC probes BT state aid claims
News It claims that BT is receiving illegal tax relief, and that the present situation, if not changed, will "destroy Broadband Britain, and turn the clock back 20 years on telecommunications liberalisation".
[January 19, 2005, 16:20]
Gordon Brown dubbed 'analogue Chancellor'
News The Conservatives had suggested refining the scheme, including tighter definitions on the equipment which would qualify for tax relief in future, saving money for the Treasury, while still allowing the scheme to survive.
[May 8, 2006, 9:55]
PowerGen provides staff with cheap home PCs
News If one needed to purchase a PC for reasons connected with employment, there may be some kind of tax relief, but the circumstances would need to be looked into to prove that it was crucial to their job," said a spokesman at the Inland Revenue.
[June 26, 2001, 16:11]
Filesharing and bilesharing: a 'three-strikes' rant
Blog And this is largely a function of the one flaw in the otherwise excellent film tax credit which disincentivises co-productions by focusing tax relief only on production spend made on the ground in the UK.
[May 12, 2009, 12:43]
Chancellor boosts UK IT industry hopes
News Brown is keen for UK inventions to match those in the US and the government will consult small businesses about supplementing tax relief for R&D with tax credits. Other measure announced in the speech included possible tax boosts for small...
[November 4, 1998, 16:40]
Motorola to spin off handset division
News Announcing this… will be a relief in terms of investor relations and hiring people. Subject to "further financial, tax and legal analysis", the American communications giant will next year spin off its mobile-devices business as an independent...
[March 26, 2008, 12:00]
Gaming is more than child's play
Leader The organisation wants some of the proposed tax relief offered to the UK film industry to apply to the gaming market. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away...
[January 27, 2006, 14:10]
Microsoft's hiring open source smarts...
Blog For whatever reasons, the press is being nice about Windows 7 (I suspect it's too early to get excited; we really should wait and see what actually appears), and there's a sense of relief that at least Microsoft isn't really going to expend all...
[February 10, 2009, 12:23]
Programmers should prize security over creativity - report
News The Department of Homeland Security should examine "such options as liability, and liability relief, regulation and regulatory reform, tax incentives, enhanced prosecution, research and development, education, and other incentives," the report said.
[April 2, 2004, 8:35]
'$100 laptops' here by next year
Talkback Water aid and Sight savers, AIDs relief and other things lower down Mazlow's hierarchy take precedence. It would have been better to issue these devices with a plug in PSU as part of a government or state solution in the US with wireless link for...
[November 18, 2005, 18:35]
