Issue 6; 27 April 1999

Further news from Revenue
We have received a 7 page letter from the Inland Revenue with further details of how they would see the new rules being implemented. We have posted this to the site, together with our initial analysis.

Campaign Group
Over the past 10 days, we have sought the involvement of, not only Contractors, but also, Accountants and Agents.

Although the objective of a concerted voice would appear admirable it has proven difficult to implement. This would perhaps reflect that each group has differing objectives.
For background to this see exchange of emails

We therefore would like to receive your views on forming a campaign group that will be focused on the interests of the Contractors, in the IT and Engineering sector and to build on the work started by engineerjob.com. If this should go ahead at a future date, when our campaign is up and running, we will seek to involve the end-user and others, but the main aim will always be to protect the interests of the Contractor. Such a group would have one focus, that of addressing the issues contained within ir35.

Before we form the campaign and accept money we would like to guage the likelihood of our being able to raise sufficient funds.

(see https://www.pcgroup.org.uk/join.html for estimates). We are looking for minimum contributions of £50 per contractor (please note any contribution made to engineerjob.com will be transferred across)
We would be grateful if you would send a blank email message to [email protected] if you are in agreement that this Group should be formed. We have set a target of 2000 emails by close of business on Tuesday May 4th to provide sufficient confidence that such a campaign will be properly funded.

Andy White
engineerjob.com
27th April 1999