Monthly Archives: December 2009

ICS Wishes You a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

All of us here at Independent Contractor Services would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We would like to say a special thank you to all the contractors and agencies that we have … Continue reading

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Contractors Should Embrace The Internet

Dawn Foster, an internet expert advised contractors and consultants that they should have a professional online approach to client relationships. In an article on Web Worker Daily, Dawn listed a number of tips that can give a great impression to … Continue reading

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What the Pre-Budget Report Means For You

Last week Chancellor Alistair Darling unveiled the Pre-Budget Report. Across the contracting industry there were gloomy predictions of what it might contain, but the good news is it wasn’t the disaster many thought it would be. Below we have highlighted … Continue reading

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PBR Not As Gloomy For Contractors As Predicted

Chancellor Alistair Darling yesterday unveiled his second pre-Budget report of this economic downturn.  Across the contracting industry this week, there were gloomy predictions of what the report would announce but as Contract Eye discusses, the Pre Budget Report really wasn’t … Continue reading

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HMRC Increasingly Relying on Substitution Clauses

Contractor UK this week warned contractors who work via an agency that HMRC were beginning to rely on right of substitution clauses to launch IR35 investigations. Right of substitution is the ability of a contractor to send someone else in … Continue reading

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Female Interims Begin To Increase

According to the Interim Management Association’s (IMA) latest Ipsos MORI report, women make up 31% of interim executives. This latest finding confirms that the male/female gap in interim management has narrowed yet again. The IMA represents the majority of established … Continue reading

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Demand Expected to Exceed The Supply Of Engineers

The Engineering and Technology Board warned us of the acute shortages of engineers in the report , Engineering UK released yesterday. The report said that the UK must find almost 600,000 new engineers over the next seven years and remove … Continue reading

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PCG Lobby To Appoint A Minister For Freelancing

In the PCG’s first ‘Manifesto for Freelancing’ which was submitted to government last week, they have called for “fairness, clarity, and recognition” for the UK’s freelance workforce. Fairness, because the “iniquitous” IR35 tax legislation puts an “unreasonable” burden and stress … Continue reading

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