From: John-Smith 
Newsgroups: uk.business.accountancy uk.finance
Subject: Re: IR591 replaces IR35?
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:52:02 +0000


 "John Smith"  wrote:

>Agreed. If IR35 goes - no certainty on that yet - at least Engineers/IT
>Consultants/etc - will be able to plan ahead and not be afraid of getting a
>huge bill X years down the line. The current uncertainty is one of the big
>issues that people have with IR35.

I think that getting around IR35 is easy enough if you are a bona fide
software contractor; you get together with a few others who work for
different firms, and you swap the work around. Then you've got a real
business. What gave rise to IR35 was programmers who worked for the
same client for years, on his premises, using his equipment. It is
employment in all but name - some even had contracts of a sort.

The real problem for programmers is lack of work in the first place.

p.s. Your NOSPAM won't stop spammers; looking for words like "nospam"
in emails is standard stuff in harvesting email addresses from usenet.
Programs what harvest email addresses come with standard filters for
removing common antispam measures like this.