I have read that as a teleworker, setting up an office at home, I should let my landlord XE “landlord” or mortgage XE “mortgage” company know and advise my local authority. Is this good policy?
A21. Do not volunteer. This is a maze you should not enter. COMPANY advises that you read the small print of your mortgage XE “mortgage” /lease/tenancy and get a copy of the local authority or regional planning/zoning laws. Consider if your home-office effects your legal occupation. This issue links to the claims you may make for tax relief on your home-office costs. In the vast majority of UK home-offices no CGT problems have yet arisen. Explanatory Property Note: Your mortgage XE “mortgage” company or landlord XE “landlord” is concerned to have a tenancy free freehold in the event that they need to evict you for non-payment. (UK – While some 5 million pieceworkers (low paid low skill labour) and about 3 million self-employed people and teleworkers work at home in the UK, and most MPs and local councillors have an office at their homes, property laws may not have caught up). A teleworker is not establishing a business at home, nor establishing a business tenancy. Similarly, the local
