Originally posted by jamesbrown
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Then again I would never take a gig that is a disguised role - if switching from contractor to perm has you doing the same job in the same way, you were likely never outside IR35 in the first place.
And I think the difference can be really subtle. I could switch from contractor to perm on this gig and do identical work, if HMRC says your contract must have been inside, I'll say which one as I'm doing two, which is not a permie thing. Most cases I've read have been won from small things, I read one where the guy was sent home after a fire alarm went off and wasn't paid, which demonstrated he wasn't treated like the employees who were paid, and he won the case off that. A single day substitution is considered a rock solid defence by many people. I wouldn't risk something so tenuous and these days I don't think you can because companies are so paranoid I had to do a CEST type assessment for my latest role, but I think if you have some reasonable grounds then that should be enough for your insurance to kick in. Certainly the cases I've been reading have been about the intricacies.
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