travel to a temporary workplace?

[RemoteContractor]

How about this guys, if the contract states:

1) Main place for work will be Belfast
2) There many be a requirement to attend other locations for a limited duration, or to perform tasks of a limited nature and duration.

How could HMRC argue that the location is not temporary when both facts and contract language indicate that it is?

[RemoteContractor]

How about if the contract states this:

1) main place of work is Belfast
2) There may be a requirement to attend other sites, duration of which will be limited, to perform tasks of a limited nature and duration.

Fairly clear cut if you ask me, both facts and contract state that the travel to other site is limited?

[RemoteContractor]

Sorry for double post, I do not see any edit or delete button

[bd6759]

A contract or any other document cannot create a fact: it can only describe a fact. If the contract requires attendance at Belast but you spend all your time in Londonderry, the fact is that Londonderry is not a temporary workplace.

If you work all your life in Belfast and your employers asks you to stand in for a manger in Londonderry for 12-18 months, then Londonderry is a temporary workplace.

The reality is usually somewhere in between. A task of limited duration means there is a foreseeable end. You will attend the location to do a specific job and it is known at the outset that it will take less than 24 months to do.

If you are given a permanent job that requires managing staff in both locations, neither is a temporary workplace.