Can you take someone on, on a self employed basis?

DCodd

Pennywise wrote: »

Also, worthy of note is that your employer may well have tax enquiry insurance to cover their costs of defending themselves in case of tax enquiry, investigation or disputes. Many of these policies prohibit contacting HMRC in advance for employee status reviews, so by contacting HMRC directly you may well be breaching your employers insurance policy which may jeopardise their position in case your enquiry leads to a full on tax investigation.

This is very important, we have this insurance and had an inspection. The two inspectors stated that the staus of the subbies would not be questioned once they saw the specialist that the insurance company sent to us for the inspection.

If you have subbies that work on a regular basis for you, you must have subcontractor contracts in place for each contract they work on. It is a mine field and I would suggest looking into the insurance (it cost us around £2k for the insurance and a small fee for the attendance of the specialist if I remember correcty).