Wasn't really refering to taxation per se, more the case that many other countries wouldn't dream/don't allow, or in the case of the EU do their damndest to get round one agreement or another, so that too often the gov't seems to allow a free for all in the UK while any half-decent UK company finds it running into obstacle after obstacle if they try to return the 'favour'.
Bit like my, and now another poor sod's at work, experience here I guess.
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Originally posted by Joe BlackSo as long as some people still do well, then the other poor sods who follow NL's line and walk out of uni with £15k debt, only to find they can't compete with people who don't have to pay any tax/costs in the UK is ok then?
Nothing wrong with the idea of opening up to competition from other countries, immigration etc, but I've been long of the opinion that UK gov't hasn't quite caught on to the idea that there should be some sort of level playing field. Not just with places like India, but even with the EU.
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Originally posted by XLMonkeyBecause not everyone has to drop their incomes
Nothing wrong with the idea of opening up to competition from other countries, immigration etc, but I've been long of the opinion that UK gov't hasn't quite caught on to the idea that there should be some sort of level playing field. Not just with places like India, but even with the EU.
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Originally posted by DimPrawnYou've really swallowed this "job creation" line haven't you?
God knows how many job are now in India that would have been in the UK. Probably millions.
And those Indian consultancies with 5000 jobs in the UK are only there to allow 10x as many jobs to flow the other way.
Wake up Monkey boy. There are a lot of people that will get very rich from the offshoring / visa process, but to say that we or joe average is one of them is deluded at best.
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Originally posted by andyThe only people I can see getting rich from this is the Tata and Infosys who get cheap indian programmers and pay them 25% of what they charge from the end clients.
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Originally posted by DimPrawnYou've really swallowed this "job creation" line haven't you?
God knows how many job are now in India that would have been in the UK. Probably millions.
And those Indian consultancies with 5000 jobs in the UK are only there to allow 10x as many jobs to flow the other way.
Wake up Monkey boy. There are a lot of people that will get very rich from the offshoring / visa process, but to say that we or joe average is one of them is deluded at best.
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You've really swallowed this "job creation" line haven't you?
God knows how many job are now in India that would have been in the UK. Probably millions.
And those Indian consultancies with 5000 jobs in the UK are only there to allow 10x as many jobs to flow the other way.
Wake up Monkey boy. There are a lot of people that will get very rich from the offshoring / visa process, but to say that we or joe average is one of them is deluded at best.
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Originally posted by The Lone GunmanCouple of problems there XL.
A lot of the consumer goods are being sold in India at Indian rates, certainly cheaper than UK, but I cant source them from India.
Originally posted by The Lone GunmanMr Dyson and his friends at IBM, MicroShaft et al are all busy setting up R&D centres in foreign lands so the design jobs are going there too.
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Originally posted by Euro-commuterI was trying to make that point too. It's a one-way process, give away the jobs and nobody will train for them any more.
http://www.mmu.ac.uk/news/news_item.php?id=579
And the jobs must be coming from somewhere, since there are 15% more than there were last year
http://www.agr.org.uk/news/agr_in_the_news/id.62.html
But, I do think that the profile of those jobs is changing - purely technical skills are becoming increasingly commoditised (and hence cheaper) and the demand for more management and organisation skills seems to be replacing them in the UK. But, again, that doesn't make a case for labour market controls, it makes a case for investing in new skills.
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Originally posted by XLMonkeyBecause not everyone has to drop their incomes.
All these people in India start earning more money and think to themselves, "I fancy one of those nice Dyson's that everyone's raving about." Dyson makes a bit of coin and ('cos its cheaper to make them in China) he starts creating lots of (high paying) product design and development jobs in the UK.
Joe down the road gets a job as a product designer and decides to blow the cash on a new Porsche.
Meanwhile, you either
- don't buy the Porsche and get a Mondeo instead, or
- get skills that the Indian's don't have (there aren't that many with 20 years experience of managing major IT change programmes out there) and get a contract implementing an all-singing all dancing ERP platform for the new global Dyson business. Where you so happen to be looking after a bunch of cheap Indian programmers.
Then, all these Indian programmers think to themselves....
A lot of the consumer goods are being sold in India at Indian rates, certainly cheaper than UK, but I cant source them from India.
Mr Dyson and his friends at IBM, MicroShaft et al are all busy setting up R&D centres in foreign lands so the design jobs are going there too.
I have had this doom laden scenario in my head for a while and every day it gets closer.
Every job that does not require customer facing or on site presence is being farmed out to the cheapest provider. I can not compete on cost because of the overheads I have been saddled with.
NL are happily fiddling while Rome burns.
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Originally posted by BuffoonClaims that the skills are not available in the UK are the basis for using overseas workers, not that domestic workers are too expensive. However, we know that these skills are in abundance. Nearly every day on this board we hear of someone struggling to find work because they are not ‘perfect’. It doesn’t apply to me any more but, for example, I would struggle to get work because I am over 45.
But... that doesn't mean that we're all on the slagheap either, or that getting older means that you can't get work as a contractor. For example, the attached survey from 2005 shows that the % of interims in work didn't vary by very much across age categories.
http://www.russam-gms.com/documents/...e%202006%2Epdf
Although I would definitely agree that the kinds of contract available change as you get older (not sure I would want a project analyst contract any more, even if I could persuade someone to offer it to me).
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Originally posted by BuffoonIt is also setting up long term problems for the economy. Why would someone want to invest in their skills if there is no possibility of getting a return on that investment? A youngster would be a fool to study computer science at university as they will leave with huge debts and a career not long enough or well paid enough to ever repay those loans.
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Originally posted by DimPrawnIf it were a level playing field then I agree XL monkey.
Sadly, when BT imports 10,000 Indian nationals onto projects in the UK via an Intra Company transfer visa running for 6 months, it is able to pay them a small fraction of the UK wage, as the Indian Nationals are not liable to pay any UK income taxes, as they are resident abroad and non-domiciled for tax purposes. What they earn goes straight in their pockets. They can also buy books, training in the UK and claim all the VAT back when they leave. No UK permie can do this.
If this were possible for all UK based workers, funnily enough they would be a LOT cheaper to hire and could compete.
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Originally posted by XLMonkeyNo, they haven't (although they have only grown very very slowly).
For the UK (page 4), from 1970 to 2001
http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/users/n...bourMarket.pdf
and from 2001 to 2006 (you need to download the CSV file)
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBAS...t.asp?vlnk=392
Of course New Liebour will shortly arrive at the same destination, but by a different route.
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Originally posted by XLMonkey....there aren't that many with 20 years experience ....
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