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		<title>Flexible Working Arrangements Decrease as Minister Urges Employers to Make Them the Norm</title>
		<link>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/archives/1842/flexible-working-arrangements-decrease-as-minister-urges-employers-to-make-them-the-norm</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 10:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PAYE umbrella contractors used to spending varying proportions of their daily life working from home might be interested in a new study from the TUC, which suggests that the number of people working from home in the UK has fallen slightly. At the start of 2010, 3.7 million worked chiefly from home.  The number actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Businesses and Umbrella Companies Need New Government Initiatives to Drive Economic Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 12:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PAYE umbrella contractors disheartened by recent news of feeble economic growth may support suggestions from a leading small business group. Last week’s announcement of a distinctly underwhelming growth in GDP &#8211; just 0.5 per cent between January and March – hardly amounts to encouraging news for umbrella companies or anyone else seeking new work opportunities.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leading contractor lambasts Government over failure to abolish IR35</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government’s decision to retain IR35 has come in for yet further heavy shell fire, this time from a prominent contractor and former external director of the freelance trade group, PCG. In a letter to the contactor news outlet Shout 99, Phil Ross didn’t mince his words. He claimed that the Coalition has “blown it” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Start-Up Britain” welcomed by CBI and Prime Minister</title>
		<link>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/archives/1741/%e2%80%9cstart-up-britain%e2%80%9d-welcomed-by-cbi-and-prime-minister</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PAYE umbrella contractors may be amongst those to benefit from the new private sector-led “Start-Up Britain” initiative to support prospective entrepreneurs. Aimed at delivering the best possible support and advice from established entrepreneurs to startup companies, the project is a response to the Government’s call for an “enterprise-led recovery.” Promising to champion the 270,000 new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New tax avoidance measures welcomed by CIOT</title>
		<link>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/archives/1733/new-tax-avoidance-measures-welcomed-by-ciot</link>
		<comments>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/archives/1733/new-tax-avoidance-measures-welcomed-by-ciot#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contractors working through limited companies or umbrella companies may be pleased to hear that the Government is adopting a more novel approach to the issue of tax avoidance. A paper entitled “Tackling Tax Avoidance” has just been released by HM Treasury and has quickly won approval from a prestigious tax organisation, The Chartered Institute of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OTS: realigning NICs and income tax will deter contracting, expert warns</title>
		<link>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/archives/1714/ots-realigning-nics-and-income-tax-will-deter-contracting-expert-warns</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contractors working through personal service companies may be intrigued by critical comments from an expert concerning a key proposal in the recent OTS Small Business Tax Review. The document continues to provoke controversy, with a leading staffing organisation now claiming that one of its central recommendations – the integration of income tax and National Insurance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IR35 reform draws closer contractors told</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the major issues influencing whether prospective contractors chose to operate through umbrella companies or their own limited companies is the thorny issue of IR35 legislation. Introduced by the previous Labour administration in 1999, it was created in an attempt to prevent tax avoidance. In reality, because of the complex and ambiguous ways in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job Creation Policy Unlikely to be More Than “Marginal”, Warns CIPD</title>
		<link>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/archives/1583/job-creation-policy-unlikely-to-be-more-than-%e2%80%9cmarginal%e2%80%9d-warns-cipd</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contractors working for umbrella companies may be interested in the distinctly cool reception given to the recent jobs summit (10th January) by the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD). Prime Minister David Cameron met with business leaders from across the UK earlier this week to discuss the issue of job creation. But according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illegal Worker Fines Issued Doubles in One Year</title>
		<link>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/archives/1057/illegal-worker-fines-issued-doubles-in-one-year</link>
		<comments>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/archives/1057/illegal-worker-fines-issued-doubles-in-one-year#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Willows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past year fines for companies found to be employing illegal workers has doubled from £11.2m to £22.1m. In correlation to this the UK Border Agency also issued over a thousand more civil penalties in 2009 (2210) than they did in 2008 (1164).]]></description>
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		<title>Responses to New Coalition Government</title>
		<link>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/archives/979/responses-to-new-coalition-government</link>
		<comments>http://news.crystalumbrella.com/archives/979/responses-to-new-coalition-government#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 11:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Francis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new coalition government comprised of Tory and Liberal Democrat MP s has now been formed and all eyes are on this new partnership. William Hague, Tory MP, has described the partnership as taking the best bits of the Liberal Democrat manifesto and combining them with the rest of the Conservative manifesto. The result is David Cameron as Prime Minister and Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister.]]></description>
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