Posts by scopesoft

Tech contractors begin mass UK.gov exodus in wake of HMRC's IR35 income tax clampdown

Zero hours contracts

A recent TUC survey stated that zero hours contracts lose the Exchequer around £2 billion of lost tax. Not seeing much being done to fix this. Makes £400 million small fry

No problem paying tax. Not happy the Government fritter it away on pet projects like foreign aid

Windows 8.1 Update: Throws desktop drones a bone but still as TOUCHY as ever

The Data Centre returns

We seem to be going back to the early days of computing when the data centre existed. We now store all our files in the cloud (as per the data centre) and get charged for the storage, we now can pay a subscription to run an application (as per the data centre), and we now have to get permission to run our apps (as per the data centre) and pay to do this. LOL