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No its totally fine. It will all come together when you complete your tax return next year. Money and tax paid from any paid employment is considered alongside the profit/loss from your business and you will pay a final tax bill at the end of it all. You may even find that you can claim some of the tax you pay from the council work back, or at least off-set it against tax owed from the profit you make from the business. I just submitted my tax return for last year a couple of days ago so still fresh in the mind (saying that, someone will no doubt correct me on here!)
You are being very sensible here whilst your company is young, no need to beg for the odd fence painting job, spend all your profits on surviving etc, you might even make a few good contacts, any money coming in at the most expensive time of year is a massive bonus, in my first year i delivered parcels for a national courier company via an agency.
If anybody reading this are short of work for the coming winter now is the time to sign up with agency's etc.
Do they want to employ you, so they pay your tax and NI, or will you be invoicing them through your business? That's the only grey area I can see, as HMRC don't like you working as self-employed when you are, in reality, an employee.
It's good that you keep the options open. I've had a few years where you did need to work almost through the winter, and the people who went off to other jobs lost out there.
There are many factors that deem whether you are self employed or employed by the council.Do you use their machinery or yours? Are you there full time? How many other sources of income do you have? There is no hard & fast answers as to which side of the line you may fall.
I don't think the question is 'will he be self employed or an employee'. It's obvious he'll be an employee alongside running his own business, completely detached from each other.
As has been said above, it's easy to account for the two. It'll make sense when it comes time for self assessment.