24 month rule - specific question

[WordIsBond]

The trick is not to expect to accept the extension until the last possible minute.

Yes, there's a point here. The existence of an offer or an email telling you there will be an offer is not an expectation that the engagement will continue. It's an expectation that they want it to continue. But until you give them an indication that you are accepting, there's no expectation that it will.

The risk is that by delaying your acceptance the client gives up on you and withdraws the offer. So you have to decide whether that risk is worth claiming expenses for a little longer. And that depends on the level of the expenses, how much you like/dislike the contract, how big is your reserve, do you have any other offers, etc.

[Old Greg]

Yes, there's a point here. The existence of an offer or an email telling you there will be an offer is not an expectation that the engagement will continue. It's an expectation that they want it to continue. But until you give them an indication that you are accepting, there's no expectation that it will.

The risk is that by delaying your acceptance the client gives up on you and withdraws the offer. So you have to decide whether that risk is worth claiming expenses for a little longer. And that depends on the level of the expenses, how much you like/dislike the contract, how big is your reserve, do you have any other offers, etc.

You give the impression to the client that you will take it without actually expecting to. Cover yourself by continuing to apply for contracts up until the point at which you receive the paperwork. In any case, you have to be pretty naive to 'expect' to remain somewhere in the absence of the renewal paperwork.

It's perfectly defensible IMO to claim up until the point at which you receive the paper work, because neither party's intentions are anything more than friendly word about future business opportunities. No idea if there is any case law on this.

[malvolio]

Dear God, why is everything so complicated? The basic rules aren't all that clear so some interpretation is probably acceptable. If you get it wrong either way it is easily corrected, either by back-claiming relief you thought you shouldn't get or by adjusting your next SAR to return relief you've claimed in error. Nobody's going to go to jail for a marginal edge case.

[ASW]

Client v Site

I have been working in my current contract for 19 months and this will end at month 20. My current contract has my base site as ‘A’ but due to ease and lots of flex within the company I work 2-3 days per week in site ‘B’ and the remainder from home.

I now have another 6-12 months on offer with the same company but different project/role.

The new role will have a base of site ‘B’.

As my base sites are different from contract 1 to contract 2 and the mileage between both is 70 miles can I simply restart the 2 yr rule? Or is it based on where I actually sped time?

...confused and don’t want to play with fire.

[northernladuk]

I have been working in my current contract for 19 months and this will end at month 20. My current contract has my base site as ‘A’ but due to ease and lots of flex within the company I work 2-3 days per week in site ‘B’ and the remainder from home.

I now have another 6-12 months on offer with the same company but different project/role.

The new role will have a base of site ‘B’.

As my base sites are different from contract 1 to contract 2 and the mileage between both is 70 miles can I simply restart the 2 yr rule? Or is it based on where I actually sped time?

...confused and don’t want to play with fire.

It's all about geographic location. Nothing to do with client at all.

All very well explained in a couple of posts in this thread and the newbie guides to the right...

https://forums.contractoruk.com/acco...-nutshell.html

It might seem complicated in your description but it isn't as you'll see in the thread above.

[Old Greg]

I have been working in my current contract for 19 months and this will end at month 20. My current contract has my base site as ‘A’ but due to ease and lots of flex within the company I work 2-3 days per week in site ‘B’ and the remainder from home.

I now have another 6-12 months on offer with the same company but different project/role.

The new role will have a base of site ‘B’.

As my base sites are different from contract 1 to contract 2 and the mileage between both is 70 miles can I simply restart the 2 yr rule? Or is it based on where I actually sped time?

...confused and don’t want to play with fire.

Did you start spending 40% of your time at site B from Day 1? If so, I think you cannot personally claim travel from your Ltd from the point at which you accept the renewal. If your contractual base is site A, there is no reason why your Ltd cannot continue to claim mileage from the client for travel to Site B, if that has always been your arrangement.