Binder,
there is a much finer and educated analysis you should make: in many countries paying social security (what the above links refer to) does not simplistically mean that you pay in one country or another but it involves LEGAL aspects.
An example?In most countries you cannot pay social security from abroad without having a locally based and compliant structure.
How would your relationship to this structure be now?Employee?Director?In any case you would have to have a locally legal bond to this structure that is paying social security for you, therefore some sort of contracts that complies with local laws and regs.
Now how does that go together with your Brookfield/Storm/Parc/Rishworth contract?
I will give you a simple example from the UK system with a quote taken from their website (
Social security benefits: statutory maternity pay: summary) about maternity pay:
Employers are responsible for administering the scheme and paying their employees the amount to which they are entitled. The Inland Revenue is responsible for ensuring that employers correctly administer the scheme and for providing employers with the funding to which they are entitled.
Let's assume you are based in the UK but resident in Spain while working for an Irish agency that is subcontracting you to a Norwegian carrier: you now pay SI in the UK as per the new EU law but cannot apply a basic benefit like maternity pay because the UK HMRC does not have the authority over a foreign employer.
This issue is being dealt with as we speak already by a few EU states and the solution they are talking about is not innovative at all but a simple and old one: local contracts.