Issue 9; 16 May 1999

Downtime | Discussion Forum | Survey | Concerns | Questions in House of Commons

The www.ir35update site went down over the weekend. We do not know the reason, so to prevent hold ups we have republished the site as a directory of engineerjob.com.

Public area is at http://www.engineerjob.com/ir35update

Member area is at http://www.engineerjob.com/ir35update/members

We have added discussion forums to the members area for legal, accounting, lobbying and press information. These forums will be checked by our professional advisers and relevant questions answered.

Survey published into the impact of IR 35: Posted 16th May 1999
Over 3000 UK Contractors were surveyed on the impact of IR 35. The results show that, unless carefully considered, the proposed regulations will have a serious impact upon the UK and the knowledge based sector in particular.

Concern over Legislation by the 'back door': Posted 16th May 1999
The Professional Contractors' Group is concerned that the Government has tabled an 11th Hour and 59th minute amendment to the Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill which could well start the legislative process to implement the IR 35 Budget proposals.

Question in House of Commons ref IR 35: Posted 16th May 1999
In response to a question from Vincent Cable (Lib/Dem) Alan Milburn, Labour Treasury spokesman stated "no legitimate service businesses will be affected by this proposed measure".

For more info on the above news stories go to http://www.engineerjob.com

Kind regards
Andy White

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