Remote UK job in EU country

[Iloveloveisland]

Do you know if a UK national living in the EU can do a remote UK job. I am specifically interested in data analyst or AI type job for a maths recent maths PhD graduate. They probably would not be returning to the UK more than maybe 3 or 4 times a year. Is it a thing?

I think this would be unlikely, most UK firms want UK residents, for tax reasons. Maybe if you were to find a UK company with an office in the country you are in it might work. You'd need to think about where you'd want to be paid - into a UK account or an EU one, and where your tax liability would be.
I know with firms my DS has worked for remotely issue a contract that specifically states they cannot work from another country.

Without an EU passport you have a limited time to be living in EU each year and will prpbably need a visa from next year. There would also be tax complications from being non dom in UK. Many companies would raise security concerns for remote working abroad.

The person has permanent residency in the country in question. But I can see the security arrangements and tax arrangements are a thing

Depends on the company. It could cause a tax problem.

Yes you can. I live in Spain so you have to go autonomo here so you declare your earnings first in the UK , then taxed in Spain under the duel tax agreement. It's a bit complicated but entirely possible and many do

Not sure where in Europe you are looking at but France is particularly challenging for digital nomads - they basically don’t allow for this set up in the tax system. The uk employer had to pay social charges to the French government, among other complicated requirements.

We’ve had two people in my office do it. One in Hungary (she started in the UK then moved), one in Brussels (working on EU policy so it made sense to be there).

From an HR perspective it’s been a NIGHTMARE. We had to comply with Belgian / Hungarian employment law, which of course no one really knows. Plus the tax stuff is complicated.

There’s no way we’d do it again.

There is a visa for digital nomads in some EU countries.

I wonder if it would be more doable as a contractor?

It could be as long as its not an IR35 issue

My work IT system doesn't allow abroad working

You would have to set up a company and adhere to all the regs in the country where you set it up. Then you would have to have a customer in another country and handle all the tax regs around that as well

Or use an umbrella company maybe? The country in question is Finland

I think it can be quite difficult, all my wfh jobs I’ve had, have had something in the contract about not working outside of the UK or a maximum amount of time to do it which is normally a couple of weeks max

In France you're not allowed to work unless you're officially employed in France for tax and social security purposes.

Does it have to be a UK company? There are a few companies that offer freelance/piecemeal work for training AI models. Sometimes it's relatively simple stuff like data annotation but I've seen work advertised where you're helping to train models on solving maths problems for example.

Do an online search, you might find out a lot of the big tech companies (or their sub-contractors) only want US citizens.

One I've seen advertised a lot is Data Annotation but I've read very mixed reports about them.

Good luck.