Canada gets to grip with undercutting by onshored intra-company transfer workers

[MicrosoftBob]

I'm not so sure. Using the governments own pay scale tables for migrant IT workers on a rate of £30,000 over £250m is lost because of the UKBA rules in treating business expenses as 'salary' for onshored workers to get to the rate required for the visa. As most of these bods are working on client contract and the rates will be double that you are looking at over £500m per annum as a subsidy to their sponsoring companies.

I would like to see Cameron or Clegg put on the spot and defend that in the run up to the next election. They have no problem bashing the bankers or Amazon or Google but then that is easy because they cannot do anything about that. Here they can.

They'd just close down the debate by accussing you of being racist

[backthemac]

They'd just close down the debate by accussing you of being racist

I'm sure they would like to try, unfortunately for them I don't care where the onshored workers come from and I'm not for imposing any sort of quota, if they genuinely need to be here fine but they shouldn't come here by undercutting resident workers.

I just want business expenses excluded from the UKBA definition of salary just like they already do for chefs (standard occupation code 5435)

Their sponsors can then decide if they want to onshore them at the UK taxable salary rate or hire a resident worker or contractor instead.

[vetran]

I agree exclude expenses.

I would also set the salary at the 90th percentile for the relevant pay range, these are of course exceptional staff that aren't available in the UK.

Taxation would be from day one and monthly so they can't spend six months here and six months in India and avoid tax. so £60K salary declared they would pay six months PAYE as if they were going to work all year.

And no subbing out.

That would sort the men from the boys. But of course they would just pay them for 6 months and give them an unpaid internship for 6 months.