The Freelance landscape

Iain McIlwee

Head of Commercial Development, PCG

The PCG Legacy

Mission: To promote freelancing and to defend

members

Vision: a thriving freelance community with an influential

voice

What do you get out of it?PCG

“Britain’s Brain Gain”The freelance market

1.4 million freelancers talent pool

The contribution to UK GDP is £82 billion

The premium is valued at £21 billion

“Britain’s Brain Gain”Why do clients use freelancers?

“Britain’s Brain Gain”Our 20,000 Members...

COMRES June 2010: PCG Membership Survey

The PCG Legacy

Powerful voice

Tried and tested tax defence

Benchmarking

Freelance Toolbox

Template Contracts

Vibrant network

A finger on the pulse

Promotion

Valuable savings

How we help

The PCG Legacy

Fairness, clarity, and recognition: Taxation:

IR35, the Family Business Tax, and HMRC’s conduct

The Marketplace: Security Clearance, Procurement, Work Permit Abuse/Offshoring, Agency Behaviour

The Rules:Agency Workers Directive, EU and UK workers and employment legislation, Conduct Regs, etc

Perception...The future of freelancing, the value of freelancers

Who are we?The headline issues

The PCG LegacyThe top of the pyramid

We believe that IR35 is onerous, unnecessary, and raises almost no revenue. It is complex and leads to uncertainty.

It discourages small businesses from starting up, and is anti-competitive. It should either be abolished or radically simplified.

The PCG Legacy

Independent body reporting to Treasury Rt Hon Michael Jack (Chairman )|

John Whiting (Director)

Two working groups Tax reliefs – Review of reliefs – interim report

submitted in Dec 2010

Small business tax simplification, including IR35 – ease administrative burden and reduce uncertainty for SME

What do you get out of it?The OTS

The PCG LegacyBudget 2011: The Red Book

The Government has decided to retain IR35, as abolition would put “substantial revenue at risk”

The Government commits to making clear improvements in the way IR35 is administered.

The PCG LegacySo where next

PCG invited to participate in IR35 Forum Focus on administration of IR35 HMRC represented by senior people at

both policy and operational levels Industry participation from Agencies

through REC and APSCO Our involvement is aimed at removing

legitimate freelancers from scope or fear of investigation

The PCG Legacy“Britain’s Brain Gain”What do you get out of it?www.britainsbraingain.com

The PCG LegacyThank you

Working for yourself doesn’t have to mean

working alone

www.pcg.org.uk/join