I have been doing work for a client in London for the past few years. Pretty typical "outside IR35" six month IT worker contract with several extensions. Qdos has reviewed and I have the insurance and tried to take precautions as best as one can yada yada... but like most people I would be uncomfortable getting any attention.
Anyway, I have decided (among other personal reasons) that I can't be bothered with the IR35 and contracting nonsense here anymore so I'm going to MVL my limited company and I'm relocating to a country far away overseas.
When I mentioned my plans to a manager at the (large global corporate) client they suggested that they can have a chat with their counterparts at their office in that country about any roles they might have going. It would be doing the same kind of IT work in a related division of the company, but with different teams and different projects. But it would have to be a full time perm thing there.
It's quite an appealing prospect, less stress with relocation, would have a few months break, make it easy with mortgages and they sound like they would even be fine with it being a full time remote working role.
I know a lot of people just go contract to perm at the same company in the UK here and don't even think twice about it. But I'm a paranoid kind of person - am I worrying too much about getting red flagged by HMRC in this scenario? I would still need to do a UK self assessment for a couple of years and I'd have to put their name on it as an employer.
