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While this is flying under the radar, this is not legal in pretty much all jurisdictions. You are an employee and using a company to contract services. It is not legal even if you were both based in the same country.

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I am not technically an employee - I get given a project and agree to complete milestones for payment. I supply my own tools and take on any risks that it won't be delivered or stuff will break. I carry my own insurance. I could hire other people to do the work if they passed my client's background check requirements and signed the NDAs.

I have a few different clients who I do work for and actively market my services.

Not quite. Disguised employment is a pretty specific and (usually) clear-cut issue with well defined criteria. The problems start when a jurisdiction broadens the definition to include whatever they want because they want to capture more tax revenue.

IANAL, but I've been freelancing for years and had a similar thing come up. In the end I was found compliant with the law, ie: not in disguised employment.

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