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 the disaster many thought it would be.
 Although there was no promise to repeal IR35 as [...]

Remember This Date – Wednesday 9th December, 2009

Chancellor, Alistair Darling has announced today that the Pre-Budget Report will take place on Wednesday 9th December, 2009.
Mr. Darling will be expected to chart out the road to economic recovery and give more details of how he plans to halve the public debt over four years.  All parties have admitted that spending cuts will be [...]

PCG Approach Alistair Darling Ahead Of Pre-Budget Report

The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) last week issued a three-part wish-list to Alistair Darling, the chancellor, ahead of his Pre-Budget Report.
The wish-list included the requests to; Scrap IR35, drop ‘income-shifting’ rules, and provide freelancers a less restrictive business model.
The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) said that freelancers, by their very nature, had become one of the [...]