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    Not in any country for 183 days in a year - where can company be registered/tax paid?

    If an UK citizen goes to Italy for a month or two to work on a contract, he can choose where to pay taxes. After 183 days he must pay taxes in Italy. In both cases when declaring his income in the UK, he must declare amounts earned and taxes paid abroad.
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    Agency demands to go umbrella or VAT registered ltd, I don't want neither

    Ok, I see they might be adverse to working with sole traders. Google suggests I might qualify as sole trader myself, although I think since I'm not a tax resident in the UK there should be no difference to them what I am and how I'm registered.
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    Remote working

    Check the double taxation treaty between UK and Brunei if there's one, it will shed some light. Generally speaking, if you work for UK company and get paid in UK bank account Brunei might not even find out.
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    Not in any country for 183 days in a year - where can company be registered/tax paid?

    This is very incorrect. The correct answer - check the double taxation treaty between your country (presumably UK) and the other country, it will have all the answers. Most common case - one has to pay taxes in the new country on the income earned in the new country if he qualifies as a tax...
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    copying existing work for another client

    A guy I know deals with IP law, according to him it would be very difficult to prove breach of copyright if you reworded the document, so if it came to court the ruling would, most likely, be in your favor. If the document has no patented know-how, information that could be classified as a...
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    Agency demands to go umbrella or VAT registered ltd, I don't want neither

    Got a role and started working without being "Set up with the agency", meaning I had only oral confirmation of the t&c, got a congratulationary email with a few more details later. I guess this is a thing now, seems like those days of "print this contract, sign every page and send the scan back...
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    Contractor knacker yard

    I have been asking myself this very question much more often than I would like to admit. From my perspective, contracting offers very little, if any, opportunity to move upwards on career ladder. As a permie, one could expect to be promoted to solution architect, designer etc after some years...
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    Carpeted

    "Argh bloody contractor with his bloody footballer's salary, sticking his rich man's coffee right into our faces, while we must drink this cat piss we can only afford on our honorably earned money."
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    Carpeted

    Some places just let you be as long as you are a reasonably valuable asset. Some places want you to be a valuable asset and love them to bits. Some places don't care what sort of asset you are, as long as you worship the same god and say the same prayers. You just never know.
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    Carpeted

    I usually am more than happy to make the teas for everyone - every second away from my desk and those moronic faces I need to work with is gold!
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    Credit Stealers

    Stop playing permie games of office politics. You are there not to earn some promotion or good boy points. Keep your head down, do your work, keep invoicing.
  12. M

    How soon do you start looking for new role?

    No harm to start looking right now. If they say it's too soon - skip that one, you might find something else.
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    Working for Oz company from the UK

    Re exchange rates: you could open an account with a FX broker that allows accounts in both AUD and GBP (oanda comes to mind), then transfer in AUD, transfer out GBP. This way you would get actual interbank exchange rate, and your only real costs would be turnaround time (could take a week to get...
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    Agency behaviour

    Where NLUK is when you need him... I don't know how you behave and talk to the agency or the clients, but here you give off very needy, clingy, whiney and impatient vibe. Does your life depend on this contract? Cool down a bit, mate, it's not the end of the world. You seem to have made a...
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    Am I right to be concerned at creeping IR35-ism?

    If said permies aren't reading CUK they may not even be aware of the massive difference between them and you. I didn't think so too before coming here, and frankly I think some of that difference is just a play of words. If in doubt you can always go umbrella.
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