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The Weekly Round-Up: 14.08.09
Round-Up The blogger, who uses the account name Cyxymu, (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia, which by the looks of it has a heavy tax on the use of vowels) had accounts on all of the different sites that were attacked... [14 Aug 2009]
Jobs of the future: No office, no paycheque
Comment Productivity gains driving IT outsourcing Tax payer still owed millions by EDS Cheat Sheet: Offshoring Special Report: Inside India He said: "This break with the present basis of employment based... [08 Oct 2008]
Indian outsource giants feeling the pinch
News Productivity gains driving IT outsourcing Tax payer still owed millions by EDS Cheat Sheet: Offshoring Special Report: Inside India The results fly in the face of figures in the quarterly index by outsourcing... [18 Jul 2008]
SMS roaming cuts 'could stifle competition'
News Different markets have inherently different costs, whether from variations in tax or, for example, labour rates. Earlier this month, the Press Association reported an IT worker from Greater Manchester was landed with a... [16 Jul 2008]
HMRC tax credit system: Lost "almost £10bn"
News The Her Majesty's Revenue & Custom's (HMRC) system to give a tax break to families has lost £9.91bn in fraud, error and overpayments to date.silicon.com Financial Services The cost of flaws in the UK's... [22 May 2008]
Job boom: Indian outsourcing braced for eight million more
News The government recently backed a one year extension of a tax break for software companies and Mittal said he hoped the government would create more Special Economic Zones, where companies enjoy other... [06 May 2008]
India edgy about outsourcing newbies?
News India's fears that other countries are undercutting its dominance of the global outsourcing market have pushed it into extending a tax break for software companies say consultants. The finance minister... [06 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.07.07
Round-Up Or to get all Daily Mail about this current state of affairs.while single mothers and the jobless are all swanning off to the Costas or Orlando to enjoy some hard-scrounged largesse on the backs of honest tax payers, the... [06 Jul 2007]
French MPs pick Ubuntu for Linux switch
News The MPs' move to open source is the first concerning a switch of operating system - previous initiatives have been more focused on servers (such as the Agriculture Ministry), OpenOffice (such as the gendarmerie) or Firefox (such as the... [12 Mar 2007]
Editor's blog: Rambling questions, tricky answers
Comment Just this week I was on the phone to the London Borough of Sutton, trying to pay my council tax. The payment department couldn't tell me what the outstanding balance was, while the benefits and tax... [07 Mar 2007]
Taxman to get software R&D tax break help
News Tax inspectors are to get special training in order to make it easier for companies to claim government tax breaks for software research and development. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown... [27 Sep 2006]
How China's universities fuel tech growth
Comment They are given tax breaks, free office space and business grants of up to around $12,000 per year. Everyone's trying to break into a market - they just can't do it without innovating. China's... [20 Jun 2006]
Luddite government slows UK knowledge economy
News But in the budget in March, Chancellor Gordon Brown scrapped the tax break. The HCI allowed companies to loan PCs to staff as a tax-free benefit, with the fee deducted from their salary... [11 May 2006]
Brown scraps Home Computing tax breaks
News Any HCI schemes started before 6 April 2006 will not be subject to the new tax rules and will still be able to claim it as a tax break. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has... [22 Mar 2006]
Tax break boosts Microsoft profits to $3.7bn
News Microsoft quarterly profits are up nine per cent to $3.7bn, boosted by a government tax break. The earnings were boosted by a tax benefit that amounted to nine cents per share, but... [22 Jul 2005]
