Most of the time members of the government treat tax avoidance and tax evasion as being synonymous. It seems to be a deliberate campaign to scare people into paying more tax than they are required to pay.
Outsourcing companies and system integrators use a number of tricks to ensure the project is profitable whilst being the lowest bidder. These include:
Removing highly qualified engineers from the team early and replacing them with new graduates
Ensuring that changes to the specification are expensive
Over-promising during the sales process
None of these is healthy and when it goes wrong, the only winners are the lawyers. I worked with a Major European Telco which outsourced the development of a large software system. It went wrong quite quickly and no useful code was delivered for two years while they sorted out the mess - expensive.
It doesn't have to be this way. The construction industry has similar issues with large projects, due to the same root causes. The collaborative contract for the construction of Heathrow Terminal 5 was very successful and resulted in the project being delivered on time and on budget, with very few disputes:
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Most of the time members of the government treat tax avoidance and tax evasion as being synonymous. It seems to be a deliberate campaign to scare people into paying more tax than they are required to pay.
None of these is healthy and when it goes wrong, the only winners are the lawyers. I worked with a Major European Telco which outsourced the development of a large software system. It went wrong quite quickly and no useful code was delivered for two years while they sorted out the mess - expensive.
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It doesn't have to be this way. The construction industry has similar issues with large projects, due to the same root causes. The collaborative contract for the construction of Heathrow Terminal 5 was very successful and resulted in the project being delivered on time and on budget, with very few disputes:
http://www.iaccm.com/contractingexcellence.php?storyid=368
I wonder if the IT industry will attempt to learn from this
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