Comment by general1465
5 days ago
If you want to work remote, then easiest approach is to establish yourself as a company / self employed and do effectively freelancing. Entering into employment contract with somebody outside your legal presence is a problem for lawyers. Paying an invoice to a company somewhere in Eastern Europe is not a big deal.
Did you try that? These "remote" jobs that OP is describing filter you out instantly because of geography, so there's nobody to speak to about B2B contract.
These that did not filter me that way, offered both: either regular employment or B2B. These are truly rare, say 2%-5%?
My guess is that in countries like US, B2B contracts for individual SWEs are considered something very special and snowflake'y. Like they fully expect you to disappear three hours in, never to be seen again.
There are duck quacking principles. Just because a contract says "Supplier: XYZ Ltd" doesn't mean it isnt employment from a tax and employment law point of view.
In theory yeah, practically whole outsourcing business stands on the fact that nobody will poke too much into "business is paying periodically this one-guy company in India".