UK Govt's IR35 tax regulations stimulate open source development

[Richard Dale]

I hope people won't mind this sounding off topic. But in my case I've decided
that this tax regulation has made it impossible to work for a client in the UK
and invoice them (tricky...) - it would destroy my company! 

For KDevelop this is an advantage - I now intend to carry on 'doing my best
stuff' for open source full time until September. Open source is so 'Socialist'
after all - helping each other out to improve things to our mutual advantage.
For instance, I particularly enjoyed an email exchange with jbb the other week
helping to fix a couple of bugs for KDevelop 1.2. Sweet..

For UK IT contractors reading this - I am advocating writing useful software as
a means of industrial action!

Regards
-- Richard



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IR35 - a Poll Tax for the 21st century. Withdraw from the UK labour market.
Write Open Source software. Work abroad. TINA.