Leaving present company advice

[gcollins]

Been with my present company for around 10 months and in that time i have only received my contract last month. I'm going to return to my previous employer who i was with for 15 years (Self employed).

Now i have not signed and sent back my contract so do i have to see out a full month's notice or will a few weeks suffice.

I work on a basic plus bonus and lately have been finding my bonus cut here and there so i feel i don't owe them nothing in return.

[Eric Mc]

How can you be "employed" for 10 years as a "self employed" individual.

HMRC would be mighty interested in that arrangement.

[gcollins]

15 years if you read. All straight and legal but grass if you wish.

[wolf1]

gcollins said:

15 years if you read. All straight and legal but grass if you wish.

After that I'm sure everyone is going to rush to help you out with advise.

[Eric Mc]

gcollins said:

15 years if you read. All straight and legal but grass if you wish.

No ones talking about grassing.

When you were self employed, how many other customers did you deal with on a regular basis?

[davepoth]

gcollins said:

Now i have not signed and sent back my contract so do i have to see out a full month's notice or will a few weeks suffice.

Depends on what the contract says.

[gcollins]

Eric Mc said:

No ones talking about grassing.

When you were self employed, how many other customers did you deal with on a regular basis?

Just contracting. Also when my accountant retired, for several years i submitted my accounts direct to the Inland Revenue so i'm sure if they were happy. You can now sleep easy your work is done here.

[Eric Mc]

I think you were probably lucky. Since the advent of Self Assessment in 1995, HMRC have been failing to spot "employees" wrongly categorised as "self employed". The data supplied in Self Assessment tax returns is not good enough to highlight this issue.

In years prior to 1995 they were much more switched on to this.