National insurance and tax help

Hi

My hubby just moved over on Monday.

He has kept his job in the US and is working from home remotely- working for an American company.

Does he need a national insurance number since he's not working for a Uk company. Does he need to pay UK taxes?  Is this classed as self employed in the UK?

We are so confused with what need to be done.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

I believe there are 2 options:

1. The employer ensures that they comply with UK employment law, which would mean your husband being employed by the UK branch of their company. If they don't already have a UK entity they may not wish to set up in the UK just to employ one person

2. Your husband sets himself up as self employed, and charges the company a rate that would cover his tax, national insurance contributions and expenses. A quick google search found this leaflet: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/leaflets/se1.pdf

The good news as that as an employee he now has the full protection of UK employment law including the minimum wage, paid holidays, anti-discrimination, redundancy pay and paid paternity pay. He is required to have an employment contract. His employer will have responsibitities to administer these as well as arranging for his PAYE and any UK corporate tax attributable to his UK activities to be paid. Hopefully his employer already has these all in hand.

Sorry I should have explained in more detail.

He works for a company called Comcast that doesn't exist in the UK it's purely an American company.

He gave his 2 weeks before we came to the UK and his boss said he didn't want to lose him and that he can just work from home in the UK remotely.

So that means he's still working for a US company, getting paid into his US bank account and  paying US taxes.

So with all that being said, since he's still employed within the US by a company that doesn't exist in the UK nor have a UK office etc. does he have to pay UK taxes? Does he need a NIN?

It's very confusing

Yes, your husband is working in the UK and is liable for UK tax and National Insurance. as the US company has no UK entity he needs to become self employed (see my earlier post), and bill the US company.

His boss probably had no idea what he was getting into when he asked your husband to continue working for the US company.

OMG!

Fruitgum thanks for your advice.

I've just spoken with my hubby.

He's a contractor for Tek Systems and works at Comcast.

Tek Systems have a UK office so what would be the next step for him?

I'm not the expert but I would guess that his first move would be to speak to the US arm of
Tek Systems to explain the situation.

Just checking - your husband has authorization to work in the UK?

If her husband has moved over on a spousal visa, then yes, he is authorized to work in the UK.

Yes he can work over here legally

I asked because sometimes people equate a long term visit as "living" in a country and, if the OP's husband was visiting he wouldn't legally able to work remotely.