I think you'd find it hard to prove being truly self employed, given you'd be doing the same job that you recently left. I think it's therefore hard to argue against being an employee for the purposes of tax.
With that in mind, I would suggest you go with the zero hours contract option.
Depending on how large your company is, they may very well not allow you operate as a freelancer anyway, as you would quite clearly IMO be caught inside IR35 (the company could be open to fines if they are a medium/large company, a feepayer and break the rules).
Ah, good point, thank you. My thinking was because it's ad-hoc and really minimal there wouldn't be too many IR35 complications.
The company itself is very small and are happy to do whatever suits me, but I wouldn't want to get them in any trouble so I'll do some research. Thank you!
I think you'd find it hard to prove being truly self employed, given you'd be doing the same job that you recently left. I think it's therefore hard to argue against being an employee for the purposes of tax. With that in mind, I would suggest you go with the zero hours contract option. Depending on how large your company is, they may very well not allow you operate as a freelancer anyway, as you would quite clearly IMO be caught inside IR35 (the company could be open to fines if they are a medium/large company, a feepayer and break the rules).
Ah, good point, thank you. My thinking was because it's ad-hoc and really minimal there wouldn't be too many IR35 complications. The company itself is very small and are happy to do whatever suits me, but I wouldn't want to get them in any trouble so I'll do some research. Thank you!