This might sound marginally over complicated, but it's really not - I'm just after a little bit of feedback and some thoughts on how I can mitigate.
Last year I wound up in a contract with a white-box consultancy service - they were a good bunch. I did one big project with them along with a couple of little side ones (All my main technology, all very IR35 friendly including some time sat at home with nowhere to go and even some time away at other customers). When my contract ended (no more work) we came up with ad-hoc agreement and I've done a couple of days here and there based on that.
Last week they got in touch to see what I was up to and it came out in casual conversation that I'd got a permie interview* elsewhere - I was asked to pop in for a coffee a chat where they made it clear that they'd be interested in at least discussing the option of me being going permie. The big thing to note here, IMHO, is that the permie role would be much more senior and differently focussed than the contract role.
So that bit I'm all okay with - it's been >7 months since I last did any work for them and the discussion is totally different to what I was up to last year.
However, separate to the above, one of the account managers has now asked if I'm about to do some of this ad-hoc work. I've agreed to a few weeks in August and I've now got another availability request from another account manager.
So, as it stands - as an individual, I'm having some high level talks with the senior management about maybe (and it is a maybe, from both sides - these are toe dipping convos, but it does feel like it may go somewhere) and as a company, I'm discussing some potential business opportunities over the next couple of weeks, based off our previous agreements.
From a business perspective, this all makes perfect sense to me. No permie-work decision will be made for a few weeks, and 4 - 12 week notice periods would be standard for a role like this. In the meantime. as a company I need to ensure that there is work going forwards.
I'm just a bit worried about the possibility of doing contract work with them for however long and then winding up in a permie role. Are HMRC going to see this as a red flag and have a problem with it? What can I do to mitigate this?
Last year I wound up in a contract with a white-box consultancy service - they were a good bunch. I did one big project with them along with a couple of little side ones (All my main technology, all very IR35 friendly including some time sat at home with nowhere to go and even some time away at other customers). When my contract ended (no more work) we came up with ad-hoc agreement and I've done a couple of days here and there based on that.
Last week they got in touch to see what I was up to and it came out in casual conversation that I'd got a permie interview* elsewhere - I was asked to pop in for a coffee a chat where they made it clear that they'd be interested in at least discussing the option of me being going permie. The big thing to note here, IMHO, is that the permie role would be much more senior and differently focussed than the contract role.
So that bit I'm all okay with - it's been >7 months since I last did any work for them and the discussion is totally different to what I was up to last year.
However, separate to the above, one of the account managers has now asked if I'm about to do some of this ad-hoc work. I've agreed to a few weeks in August and I've now got another availability request from another account manager.
So, as it stands - as an individual, I'm having some high level talks with the senior management about maybe (and it is a maybe, from both sides - these are toe dipping convos, but it does feel like it may go somewhere) and as a company, I'm discussing some potential business opportunities over the next couple of weeks, based off our previous agreements.
From a business perspective, this all makes perfect sense to me. No permie-work decision will be made for a few weeks, and 4 - 12 week notice periods would be standard for a role like this. In the meantime. as a company I need to ensure that there is work going forwards.
I'm just a bit worried about the possibility of doing contract work with them for however long and then winding up in a permie role. Are HMRC going to see this as a red flag and have a problem with it? What can I do to mitigate this?
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