Immigration cap to be "Business Friendly"

[AtW]

Much simpler is to sell the ICT visas to the highest bidder, starting bids are £50K each and they only last 12 months, then it's bid time again.

It is sensible to auction workpermits - top bidders are those who pay highest salary with a %-tage of it paid upfront as fee for workpermit, say 10% or £5k minumum with salaries being set to minimum of £50k.

5 years in jail for those who fail to pay salary to those who get workpermits.

[Jubber]

This is obviously not good news, but to me it is small potatoes compared to if the EU opens up the contract market to indian 'IT Professionals'.

We'll have to compete with $100/day Bobs which the agents will bring across in droves as they'll punt them in at £200/day and keep the rest. IMO that will be the end.

[minestrone]

That can be checked by tax paid via PAYE.

They get paid in India by Indian companies to Indian bank accounts and pay Indian Tax.

Feck I'm getting chased for a VAT payment I made, on time, 4 months ago. The country can hardly keep track of registered UK companies tax payments.

[DimPrawn]

That can be checked by tax paid via PAYE.

Too easy to fiddle and too difficult to track from a HMR&C point of view (they have tulipe IT systems).

Much simpler is to sell the ICT visas to the highest bidder, starting bids are £50K each and they only last 12 months, then it's bid time again.

[AtW]

Unworkable. They will just get round it.

That can be checked by tax paid via PAYE.

[minestrone]

ICT is good idea so long as minimum salary is set to pretty high limit, say £50k.

Unworkable. They will just get round it.

[Scrag Meister]

I don't recall businesses getting 'the vote' in our democratic system.
Unfortunately this is all legit, as the manifesto pledge was all about reducing 'net' migration and nothing to do with skilled workers.

"unacceptably high"

Probably similar article to the OPs, "skilled talent", sounds like a large lump of our skilled talent is sat on the bench, so there should be plenty to fill the void caused by slowing immigration!!

[CheeseSlice]

BBC News - Migrant cap 'will support business', says David Cameron



As predicted by many here ...

I don't recall businesses getting 'the vote' in our democratic system.
Unfortunately this is all legit, as the manifesto pledge was all about reducing 'net' migration and nothing to do with skilled workers.

[lightfoot]

£24,000 ICT minimum

In Today's Sunday Times £40,000 minimum for Inter company transfers.

Except if you are IT then £24,000.

Why should IT be different than everything else because multi-nationals and the big banks are so dependent on this method as 30,000 plus are issued a year !

How do IT graduates compete with offshore highly experienced resource with such legislation no accident the IT graduates have the highest unemployment rate among recent graduates ..

[AtW]

ICT is good idea so long as minimum salary is set to pretty high limit, say £50k.

[MrMark]

BBC News - Migrant cap 'will support business', says David Cameron

"So for instance, inter-company transfers - a company like PriceWaterhouse or someone wanting to move people between different countries - we will try and exempt many of the inter-company transfers from the immigration system."

As predicted by many here ...