Using Independent Contractors to Service your US Clients is a Complicated and Risky Strategy
A sensible and often used way for UK companies to test the waters and get a foothold in the USA is to make initial inroads through service providers and consultants already based in and familiar with the American market. This generally takes one of two forms: Either the UK company, directly or through an “employer of record”, administers one or more pay rolled employees to do the company’s work in the US; or the company directly engages independent contractors to do the same job.
