Furthermore, what you have quoted Nick is not in the contract. It is in the Frequently Asked Questions document which they send along with the contract. There is absolutely nothing in the contract which suggests you must use one of the accountants that they mention. Seems pretty cut and dry to me
Nick,
This is the kind of thing that you really need to be vey careful of. What IS in the contract and what you THINK is in the contract are very different things. Make sure you read what you are ACTUALLY signing.
It is not Brookfield's responsibility to ensure you are paying tax. If your Ltd Company chooses to break the rules, they are not responsible.
That is like saying if you hire a builder to do some work on your house, and he faulters on his tax liabilities, you as the person that has hired him to fix your roof would be in trouble.
The only reason that BRK are getting all worried about this stuff is because they are not doing things quite as they should, and they don't want HMRC looking into thier business goings on.
Anyway, no matter how you look at it, if you are a Ltd company, and are only working with BRK, and you have no other income from any other contracts, you are employed by them. The fact that your contract states very clearly that you can not operate any other aircraft shows that you are under BRK control 12 months of a year, regardless of if they take you off their books for that month "Unpaid Leave" to try and satisfy the rules.
(If you have ever worked for a temp agency doing factory work for instance, you will notice that no where in the contract you will have signed with them does it say that you can not work anywhere else).