Cadet,
I think I understand your point, but if you are right it means I have misunderstood IR35 (which is very possible).
IR35 was the legislation that stopped my IT contracting nearly 10 years ago. It was designed to stop people working, to all intents and purposes, full-time for a single company from minimising their tax bill through a number of long-standing loopholes. The UK revenue introduced IR35 to close many of these and to increase the number of people paying full PAYE UK tax.
The current Brookfield's contract requirement (Irish company and approved accountants) seeks to force people into the Irish revenue PAYE system as though we were full-time employees. I need to understand what problem the UK revenue would have with this, it means the Irish revenue are making us do what IR35 would make us do if we were paying tax in the UK.
Wally