2004
TAX RETURN - REMINDER
30 September 2004 is the deadline for submission of
your 2004 tax return if you wish the Inland Revenue
to calculate the tax or, if you are an employee, you
wish to have a 2003/04 balancing payment of less than
£2,000 collected through your 2005/06 PAYE code.
1 October 2004 is the due date for payment of Corporation
Tax for the period ended 31 December 2003.
50% DISCOUNT FOR PCG MEMBERS ON KEY IR35 TEXT
The third edition of "Tolley's IR35 Defence Strategies:
From Contracts to the Commissioners", written by
Dave Smith of Accountax Consulting, has just been published.
The book retails at £54.95 but PCG members are
entitled to a 50% discount. To order your copy, call
(020) 8662 2000, stating the name of the book and furnishing
your PCG membership number.
AN IR35 TALE
A member has written to PCG about his IR35 investigation:
"I am pleased to say that after a two and a half
year investigation by the IR into my employment status
as a result of a two year contract with a local authority
I have received confirmation that they are no longer
pursuing the investigation. My last submission to them
explained that I was 'creating a product' for the client
- i.e. a design for a building - which was of course
not likely to be the same as someone else's design.
This seems to have clarified the situation. Unfortunately
I heard of PCG too late - the investigation had started
and interviews already done - however, I could have
saved myself perhaps two years of stress and anguish
had I known of PCG earlier. Keep up the good work."
DOMAIN NAME SCAMS
Two "old favourite" domain name scams have
resurfaced recently. As with all scams, the simple solution
is to ignore them, but both of these appear convincing,
and several people have become their unwilling victims.
Domain Registry Services (DRS), based in Cambridge,
sends out "Domain Expiration Notices" implying
that the domain is about to expire, and request payment
of £60 to extend the registration by two years.
DRS has no means of renewing the domain, without the
registration being transferred from your existing host
or provider, who would in most cases, charge significantly
less than £60 for two years. Members should consign
such notices to the bin.
Several members have also reported receiving telephone
calls advising them that someone else wants to register
a derivative of their domain name, but that they can
have pre-emption rights to buy it. The prices quoted
may be in excess of £100. Usually there is no
"someone else" and this is merely a tactic
to generate extra sales. Members are advised to decline
any such offers from cold-callers.
Members who have any doubt or concerns about their
domain names, or wish to consider registering further
names, are advised to contact their existing host or
provider. Alternatively, a number of PCG members offer
domain registration services and advertise them in the
Commercial
or Members'
Commercial forum.
COMMERCIAL FORUM PROJECT POSTINGS
For information about the latest job, project, contract
and work opportunities, see PCG's Commercial
forum , and Members'
Commercial forum. The Commercial forum may be accessed
by Affiliate members, and PCG welcomes postings by agencies.
REAL LIFE MEETINGS
Local real life meetings - known on the forums as "RLMs"
- encourage members to socialise, network and discuss
PCG issues. These meetings are open to all members,
and in many cases non-members are welcome to come along
too.
The PCG group in Warrington met for the first time
last Saturday 25 September with 11 attendees - an excellent
turnout for their first meeting. They agreed to meet
on the last Saturday of every month at 08:30 in the
Room Four Business Venue. For further information about
the Warrington Group, please email Andy at [email protected]
Farnborough:
Prince of Wales, Farnborough - Tuesday 28 September
2004 19:00
Sheffield
RLM launch: Wentworth House Hotel, 26 Milford Street,
Sheffield S9 2LD - Thursday 30 September 2004 19:30
Email Mike or Phil on [email protected] or reply
to him on the forum
Who to look for: see a photo
of Mike.
West
Midlands: Rose and Crown J3 M42 - Wednesday 6 October
2004 20:00
Thames
Valley: The Vine, Maidenhead - Wednesday 13 October
2004 20:00
Kent
/ Essex: Bluewater, near Greenhithe, Kent - Monday
18 October 2004 19:30
Various members have also posted in the RLM forum about
potential meetings in Taunton,
Basel,
Norwich,
Edinburgh,
Shropshire
and South
Wales. If you would like to attend RLMs in any of
these areas, please register your interest by posting
to the relevant thread.
OTHER EVENTS
AICS,
London: - Thursday 30 September 2004 18:45
Guest speaker Shelagh Gaskill of Masons, a firm of solicitors
in
London, who presented an overview of the Data Protection
Act 1998 two
years ago, will give an update on recent developments
in data
protection and privacy issues, as well as an overview
of the Freedom
of Information Act.
Disclaimer - caveat emptor - PCG carries very limited
advertising only from known and reputable Affiliates and
complementary organisations. Even so, publication of any
advertisement carries no implicit or explicit endorsement
by PCG.
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