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    Public Sector IR35 Petition

    In case you haven't seen it elsewhere...

    https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/170118

    #2
    Originally posted by javadude View Post
    In case you haven't seen it elsewhere...
    https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/170118
    It has already been expained on another thread why this is a poorly framed petition at best.
    Yet even if the case was sensibly presented, you'd have to be very naive to think that petitioning the government works (especially THIS government). Money talks, everything else walks - in the UK more than anywhere else.
    Help preserve the right to be a contractor in the UK

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      #3
      I'm out due to the poor wording of the petition.

      If you want the public to sign petitions you have to make contractors not look like tax avoiding scum.

      At least the government will respond with it's "only fair".
      "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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        #4
        that will be a nice list for HMRC to pick through looking for easy targets.
        See You Next Tuesday

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          #5
          Originally posted by javadude View Post
          In case you haven't seen it elsewhere...

          https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/170118
          Yep I criticised as poorly written when someone posted it here back in November with about 18 signatures, and I criticised it again yesterday when someone mentioned it was doing the rounds on linkedin.

          Personally it makes us look like woe is me, tax evading greedy muppets so I wouldn't sign it if my life depended on it.
          merely at clientco for the entertainment

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            #6
            Sweet... . The perfect honeypot!
            Last edited by munkee; 25 January 2017, 18:49.

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              #7
              I heard this was set up by an HMRC bod to fish for targets to investigate
              I am what I drink, and I'm a bitter man

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                #8
                Originally posted by Whorty View Post
                I heard this was set up by an HMRC bod to fish for targets to investigate
                Wouldn't surprise me. It's certainly worded in such a way as to appeal to those that are contracting for the money primarily. How many of the signatories are on 90% take home schemes?
                The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by LondonManc View Post
                  How many of the signatories are on 90% take home schemes?
                  Ah, the "umbrellas" that TfL are encouraging the use of...

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                    #10
                    What is interesting is how many are now just waking up to this issue. Over 3k signatures in the last few days. The reality is beginning to hit home......

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