I’m not saying anything about the hours, but it’s perfectly legal to be self-employed AND employed. The Self Assessment tax form has a space where you enter your PAYE taxed income from employment, and another where you enter your figures (income, costs, profit) from self-employment.
Which reminds me…I must fill mine in.
Be sure to obtain advice as to whether you can be legitimately self-employed in your second job. Normally you can only be self-employed if there is a genuine business risk, it’s up to you when you do the work, you provide tools, materials, equipment etc.
In my self-employed job, I sometimes have to go and work in magazine offices. I always I make sure I take my own laptop etc, and am not seen using an ‘office’ computer.
Or not, you still have to show the hours you’ve worked by making a manual entry and that’ll put you over the top.
Unless of course you don’t put the hours down as a manual entry… just sayin’ like.
Not going to expand on the self-employed argument it’s been done to death here. I don’t think you can do it as self-employed. One job and one company doesn’t fit the criteria.
I used to do it about 10 years ago, Had a full time job then had a second job working self employed but paid through a umbrella company (Nova). Had no problem with the Tax office, But I did get sacked from my full time job. Well you live and learn