UK Govt's IR35 tax regulations stimulate open source dev

[Derek_Mason at liebert.com]

     Richard,
     
     Can you outline IR35 for those of us who haven't heard of it?
     (Including me, even tho' I'm in the UK and the software industry 
     [well, embedded anyway] ? )
     
     regards,
     
     Derek L.G. Mason


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Subject: UK Govt's IR35 tax regulations stimulate open source develop
Author:  kdevelop at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de at internet
Date:    10/05/2000 7:15 PM


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.