Working from home on overseas contract, no agency

[QueenElizabeth]

No, not nonsense. Presumably when you say 'stuff' you mean goods? I am not talking about goods, I am talking about services and those services have taken place solely in the UK.

I don't see the difference between the tax-free goods you can buy in the airport if you are leaving the country, and services that are 'produced' here but the results of which are being exported and used and rehashed in another country long before they come back here - if ever. The client's lawyers have stated they don't have to pay VAT, Norla checked with their accountants and agreed they were exempt, everyone is happy.

[slackbloke]

I don't see the difference between the tax-free goods you can buy in the airport if you are leaving the country, and services that are 'produced' here but the results of which are being exported and used and rehashed in another country long before they come back here - if ever. The client's lawyers have stated they don't have to pay VAT, Norla checked with their accountants and agreed they were exempt, everyone is happy.

You didn't actually say any of your work was being exported. You just said you worked directly for a US company. That doesn't stop you providing services to a third party in the UK via the US company.
I am curious why you are in the UK if you are working for a US company directly, why not go and work in the US?

[QueenElizabeth]

You didn't actually say any of your work was being exported. You just said you worked directly for a US company. That doesn't stop you providing services to a third party in the UK via the US company.

Ah, I see. No, nothing remains in the UK and no aspect of the project requires me to be located here, in the US, or anywhere. Well, somewhere.

I am curious why you are in the UK if you are working for a US company directly, why not go and work in the US?

Working for a US company doesn't give me the legal right to work in the US.