24 months + Contract renewal

[RockyBalboa]

Let me put a bib on you and open your special food so I can feed it to you, there is a good little soldier....

Firstly... It is from the moment you know you are going to be over 24 months. Not POST 24 months. This has been said more than enough times now....

You could get your contract amended to say your new location is up my lilly white ass but if you are not going to travel there it doesn't mean squat. If you continue to travel to your client at the same place you location is still there. It doesn't matter what it says on your contract. If you travel to the same location for more than 40% of the time or 2 years your caught (from the moment you know of course).

If you can change location (physically), out of the geographic area not across the road, then the clock starts again.

Read the damn guides and do a search. Jesus. Why people will not do a bit of research when it comes to potentially falling foul of HMRC I will never know.

I would like to know what the repercussions of changing your contract to not reflect your working situation for personal gain is though. Has to be some legal come back on that surely?

Suppose:

1 x contract up to 24 months.
Renewal possible for post 24 months...
Choice of office location available to travel to.
Therefore, change location in NEW contract to NEW location (with same client) and start another xx months (<= 24) contract and claim expenses for travelling to new location?

[northernladuk]

Suppose:

1 x contract up to 24 months.
Renewal possible for post 24 months...
Choice of office location available to travel to.
Therefore, change location in NEW contract to NEW location (with same client) and start another xx months (<= 24) contract and claim expenses for travelling to new location?

Yup, perfect situation. If you can sort that out you on a better gig than me. My client wouldn't let me change offices.

Note this is geographical location which is the grey bit. 5 miles away isn't a geographical change. God knows what is though.

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

Suppose:

1 x contract up to 24 months.
Renewal possible for post 24 months...
Choice of office location available to travel to.
Therefore, change location in NEW contract to NEW location (with same client) and start another xx months (<= 24) contract and claim expenses for travelling to new location?

It would all depend on whether or not you were at the new location all the time AND whether the new location caused a significant change to your travelling time. If you were at the original location some of the time and at the new location some of the time you would then have to look at the 40% rule (if you spend more than 40% of your time over a rolling 24 month period then the 24 month rule is still invoked). The distance travelled or time travelling would also have to change significantly - office 1 Birmingham and office 2 London you would be OK but both offices in London would be a different story.