Customer wants me to use his company email address on my work

comeandgo

Yes, must admit my husband just answers his phone with his name, never business as that can complicate things.

zaax

That sounds like drop shipping. Someone get the sale and another company (quite often Amazon) sorts the rest out (for a percentage), don't forget the cost of sorting out returns etc. needs to be included in the percentage

InsideInsurance

podperson wrote: »

HMRC will not care what email address you use - as long as this isn't the only client you do work for then you're not classed as an employee.

Unfortunately both over simplistic and not correct, you can have multiple clients but still be considered either an employee or inside of IR35 (depending on if you are a sole trader or a Ltd) as both of these are judged on a client by client basis.

You can look at the likes of http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/calcs/esi.htm or IR35 tests and one of the questions normally considered is the provision of tools. If he is getting an email address from the client then some of the "tools" are being supplied by the client which is a mark against being "self employed". This however is only one of a list of tests and as long as he is otherwise safe then it is fairly unlikely to be an issue.

Is 123 a limited company or are you a sole trader trading as 123?

If you are a sole trader then the real risk is for the client more than you. If you are 123 Ltd then IR35 comes into play which is a risk for you alone.

supermonkey

InsideInsurance wrote: »

Unfortunately both over simplistic and not correct, you can have multiple clients but still be considered either an employee or inside of IR35 (depending on if you are a sole trader or a Ltd) as both of these are judged on a client by client basis.

You can look at the likes of http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/calcs/esi.htm or IR35 tests and one of the questions normally considered is the provision of tools. If he is getting an email address from the client then some of the "tools" are being supplied by the client which is a mark against being "self employed". This however is only one of a list of tests and as long as he is otherwise safe then it is fairly unlikely to be an issue.

Is 123 a limited company or are you a sole trader trading as 123?

If you are a sole trader then the real risk is for the client more than you. If you are 123 Ltd then IR35 comes into play which is a risk for you alone.

Yes, I'm a sole trader - I've actually spoken to him & understand the reason for the email address a bit more now (to enable access to some other software it is easier to use an ABC email address)

Thanks

DCodd

InsideInsurance wrote: »

Unfortunately both over simplistic and not correct, you can have multiple clients but still be considered either an employee or inside of IR35 (depending on if you are a sole trader or a Ltd) as both of these are judged on a client by client basis.

You can look at the likes of http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/calcs/esi.htm or IR35 tests and one of the questions normally considered is the provision of tools. If he is getting an email address from the client then some of the "tools" are being supplied by the client which is a mark against being "self employed". This however is only one of a list of tests and as long as he is otherwise safe then it is fairly unlikely to be an issue.

Is 123 a limited company or are you a sole trader trading as 123?

If you are a sole trader then the real risk is for the client more than you. If you are 123 Ltd then IR35 comes into play which is a risk for you alone.

I'd very supprised if HMRC would go down that route as far as IR35 is concerned. There is enough precedence to argue the point. We have to have our employees wear our Main contractors H-Viz on site for Corporate identity issues and I would suggest that using the clients e-mail address would be seen as a similar thing to be honest.

Brassedoff

Are you in any way a person who works for his company? Do you work as a freelancer or subcontractor for him?

I was a director for a firm that had franchises, the franchisees had their own sub domains, but used our email address. The big issue there is, all emails can be blind copied into his email catch all address.

If you could explain a bit more about how your work is connected it would help, but if you are your own man so to speak your answer should be no.

I would not want anyone being able to pass my work off as his firm's.

PasturesNew

If you were making your own products, that he was selling, I can see how you'd be uncomfortable with this.

If, however, you're working as a "virtual assistant" then having an email on his company domain would be a very common route to take.