PCG's recent achievements include:
- Taking the landmark Arctic Systems Section 660A case to the Special
Commissioners, the High Court and to the Court of Appeal, culminating
in a judgment in favour of
PCG member Geoff Jones. The outcome of this important case potentially
affects hundreds of thousands of family businesses in the UK.
- Continued support of members� tax and employment status cases �
current status�1,161 cases won versus three losses and one case
withdrawn by the member concerned.
- Continuing to widen our lobbying reach, working with ministers and
their shadows, key civil servants, MPs and MEPs, and�select
committees.
- Submitting responses to the Government in respect of several consultation papers, such as:
- Office of Government Commerce (OGC) consultation on Supply Chain Management
- Department of Constitutional Affairs on proposals to change the
Tribunals system (replacing the General and Special Commissioners of
Income Tax)
- HM Treasury on the Hampton Review of government regulation
- Lobbying against the directive on computer-implemented inventions,
which would have made software patentable; our efforts were rewarded in
July 2005 when the European Parliament rejected the directive.
- Working closely with Work Permits UK and�successfully campaigning to keep IT off the "skills shortage" list.�
- Improving and increasing media coverage and
contributing�editorial to several respected publications,
including the Institute of Directors' Growing Business, IEE Computing & Control Engineering, the British Computer Society's ITNOW and the ATSCo Staffing Handbook. We are also contributing to a Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) book about freelancing.
- Expanding and enhancing our sphere of influence with complementary
organisations, fielding guest speakers at a range of important events.
- Introducing a groundbreaking ISO9001 certification scheme called PCG (QS)
for small, independent consulting firms, giving them the chance to
compete on a level playing field for public sector and corporate
contracts.
- Launching an Approved Contract scheme to
enable agencies whose contracts have been through a rigorous review and
approval process to brand those contracts with a special PCG logo,
providing reassurance to their contractor clients that they are
offering commercially sound, business-to-business contracts suitable
for freelance businesses operating outside IR35.
- Introducing a new level of membership, called PCGPlus,�which offers additional insurance cover and a range of other valuable benefits.
- Passing our�third annual ISO9001 external surveillance audit, the precondition for retaining ISO9001 certification.
- Producing a range of publications, guides and literature, including:
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