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Update: Dear All, thanks for your help. I did indeed receive an answer -- and a clear, definitive one - from Sue B . Thanks loads to her for her consummate expertise. With all errors or inaccuracies being mine - here is the answer:
When working for, say, a German company, 3 criteria -...
Thank you all for your perspectives.
I, the OP, am indeed deeply confused. Here are some facts and a few assumptions.
Facts
1. I have no current address in Germany.
2. I am a UK citizen.
4. I have HAD an address - an address I duly registered with the German authorities - in Germany, in...
Thanks. It is useful to know that I would likely pay tax to the UK. No, I am fairly certain I will be an employee of the German agency. The agency will, for example, pay the Employer's half of the relevant German 'social' taxes: Health, Pension, Church tax, etc. Perhaps complicating things is...
I am investing the feasibility of a contract I would have with an agency based in Germany. I would work most of the time remotely, sitting most weeks at a desk in the UK, making occasional short visits to a client company in Germany. My employer would be the German recruiting agency. Neither...
Background
I have done 5 years of software development as an independent contractor in the UK, after working in permanent posts for 10 years. I now want to pursue contracting work in the US. I am a US citizen so visas, etc. are not a problem.
In the UK I have contracted onsite out of my own...