Insight & Opinion on Property Tax: UK Landlord Tax

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Making Tax Digital: A Guide for Landlords to Prepare for the Future

May 23, 2025
| Making Tax Digital

As a landlord, keeping on top of tax changes can sometimes feel overwhelming. With Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (MTD IT) on the horizon, understanding what’s coming and preparing early will ensur...

Comparison of Discretionary Trusts and Family Investment Companies

May 13, 2025
| Family Investment Companies

Family Trusts have long been a cornerstone of estate planning, offering a reliable way to pass wealth to future generations while potentially reducing Inheritance Tax (IHT). However, in recent years, ...

Spotlight 69: HMRC’s Crackdown on LLP Property Schemes

May 8, 2025
| Legal

In recent developments, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has issued Spotlight 69, highlighting a tax avoidance scheme involving Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) that landlords have used to bypass ...

Understanding Deferred Consideration for Capital Gains Tax (CGT)

Apr 22, 2025
| Capital Gains Tax

When selling a business or asset, it’s common for the sale price to include future payments—these are known as deferred consideration. From a Capital Gains Tax (CGT) perspective, how these payme...

Big Tax Changes Ahead for Furnished Holiday Lettings – What You Need to Know

Apr 22, 2025
| Airbnb Landlords

If you own a furnished holiday let, there are some important tax changes on the horizon that could significantly affect your future returns. Announced in the Spring Budget 2024, the government confirm...

A Complete Guide to Let Property Campaign

Apr 21, 2025
| Let Property Campaign

How to Disclose Rental Income to HMRC Through the Let Property Campaign If you’ve earned rental income from a property and haven’t declared it to HMRC—whether it was an honest oversight or something y...

How to Disclose Rental Income to HMRC

Apr 17, 2025
| Let Property Campaign

HMRC’s Let Property Campaign: What Every UK Landlord Needs to Know If you’ve earned rental income that hasn’t been declared to HMRC—whether through oversight, confusion, or circumstance you’re not alo...

Leased apartments Sub Let on Airbnb – VAT – TOMS or not?

Jan 24, 2025
| Airbnb Landlords

Background The First Tier Tribunal decision, released on 5 July 2023, that use of the Tour Operators’ Margin Scheme [TOMS] was applicable in the case of Sonder Europe Ltd ([2023] UKFTT 00610 (TC)) was...

2024 Autumn Budget Summary for Landlords

Oct 31, 2024
| News

On 30th October 2024, Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered the first budget under the new Labour Government, bringing in several new measures that will directly affect landlords. The biggest of these wa...

Budget Update for Landlords

Oct 31, 2024
| News

The Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her first budget of the new Labour Government with a number of measures that directly affects landlords. Whilst we await the full Budget Report there were a numb...

PRR: What You Need To Know About Moving Frequently

Oct 21, 2024
| 2 or more Property Landlords

Situations arise where a taxpayer ends up moving from one property to another in a relatively short period of time. From HMRC’s point of view the issue is one of whether the move from one property to ...

VAT Treatment on Property Conversions Guide

Oct 18, 2024
| Single Property Landlords

Property conversions present unique opportunities for preferential VAT treatment under certain conditions. While construction work is typically standard-rated for VAT purposes, specific types of prope...

Why You Should Separate Trading & Investment Limited Companies

Oct 16, 2024
| Limited Companies

We receive many enquiries from directors of trading companies. Typically, IT consultants are looking to use their company funds to purchase investment properties in their trading company. However, in ...

Free Company Return Tax Filing Has Ended

Property118 Tax Avoidance Scheme Subject To HMRC Stop Notice

Aug 6, 2024
| News

Sadly, but nonetheless unsurprisingly, HMRC has issued a stop notice to Property 118 in connection with their use of a Capital Account Restructure. The full details can be found here. Dan Needle of Ta...

Maximising Director Benefits: A Comprehensive Guide

Sep 9, 2024
| Limited Companies

Here’s a comprehensive list of potential benefits directors can leverage to their advantage: 1. Trivial Benefits: Directors are entitled to claim trivial benefits up to £300 per director, per tax year...

Pre-Trading Expenditure On A Buy-To-Let Explained

Jul 31, 2024
| What expenses can I claim

Discover how to claim allowable expenses incurred before your first tenant moves in. Learn about deductible costs such as mortgage interest, repairs, insurance, and more. Ensure your claims are HMRC-r...

What You Need To Know About The Abolition of Furnished Holiday Lettings

Jul 30, 2024
| News

Chancellor Reeves to abolish furnished holiday lettings relief by April 2025. Find out more about how these changes could impact you and plan accordingly.

What You Need To Know About Family Investment Companies

Family Investment Companies – What You Need To Know

Jul 8, 2024
| Family Investment Companies

With the rise in landlords buying property through limited companies, now thought to be more than 50% of all new buy-to-let purchases, the use of a Family Investment Company (FIC) structure offers lan...

Meet Arnie: The AI Chatbot Revolutionizing Property Tax Assistance for Landlords

Jun 21, 2024
| Company News

Keeping up with tax obligations and financial regulations is no easy task in the fast-moving world of property management. This is why we have launched “Arnie”, an industry-leading AI chatbot to help ...

Furnished Holiday Lettings – What You Need To Know Next

Apr 24, 2024
| News

The 2024 Spring Budget included the announcement that furnished holiday let (FHL) status will be abolished from April 2025. So what are the implications for FHL business owners who decide to continue ...

Navigating the Continued 2.25% Director’s Loan Rate into 2024/25

Apr 17, 2024
| News

To the surprise of many HMRC has kept the official rate of interest (ORI) for beneficial loan arrangements like director’s loans at 2.25% for the second year running. In a recent press release, HMRC h...

Personal allowances for non-residents and dual residents

Apr 14, 2024
| Non-resident Landlords

If you are living abroad, or you are a foreign national, and you own property in the UK in your personal name, you are still entitled to the UK personal tax allowance depending on your nationality and...

What Is an Associated Company?

Mar 22, 2024
| Limited Companies

An associated company refers to a situation where two or more companies are connected in a way that allows one to influence or control the other. Here are the key points you need to know: Definition: ...

A Closer Look at the Recent Capital Gains Tax Cut

Mar 21, 2024
| Capital Gains Tax

Finally, the main event. The moment we had all been waiting for. The Chancellor announced a cut to Capital Gains Tax on the sale of residential property. Property gains, the one type of gain that attr...

Furnished Holiday Lets to End in April 2025

Mar 20, 2024
| Airbnb Landlords

In his budget on 6th March, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the end of the Furnished Holiday Letting Regime. The stated aim was to make more homes available to local people, particularly in holiday h...

2024 Spring Budget Summary for Landlords

Mar 13, 2024
| News

The 2024 Spring Budget on 6th March held some major changes that will affect all landlords in general and owners of Furnished Holiday Lets in particular. We outline these changes below from the inform...

Short Term Lets in England Will Soon Need Planning Permission.

Feb 21, 2024
| Airbnb Landlords

The Housing Secretary Michael Gove has announced that legislation is to be introduced in England this summer to require owners of short term lets to obtain planning permission from their local council...

Changes to UK Company Law: What You Need To Know

Feb 19, 2024
| Company News

Due to The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act, Companies House is currently undergoing a major transformation. Some of the changes are planned to be introduced from March 2024, while others...

Is It A Repair Or An Improvement?

Feb 11, 2024
| What expenses can I claim

As UK property accountants and tax advisers, we are regularly in discussions with our clients as to the correct treatment of expenditure relating to property letting income. Expenditure will be class...

Stamp Duty Land Tax & Buy To Let: Your Questions Answered

Jan 12, 2024
| Uncategorized

Stamp Duty Land tax (SDLT) remains in the spotlight for change to stimulate markets and the economy. Like most taxes, SDLT does have areas of complexity and many of these areas have been detailed in H...

Landlord tax advice & news

Making Tax Digital: A Guide for Landlords to Prepare for the Future

Comparison of Discretionary Trusts and Family Investment Companies

Spotlight 69: HMRC’s Crackdown on LLP Property Schemes

Understanding Deferred Consideration for Capital Gains Tax (CGT)

Big Tax Changes Ahead for Furnished Holiday Lettings – What You Need to Know

A Complete Guide to Let Property Campaign

How to Disclose Rental Income to HMRC

Leased apartments Sub Let on Airbnb – VAT – TOMS or not?

2024 Autumn Budget Summary for Landlords

Budget Update for Landlords

PRR: What You Need To Know About Moving Frequently

VAT Treatment on Property Conversions Guide

Why You Should Separate Trading & Investment Limited Companies

Property118 Tax Avoidance Scheme Subject To HMRC Stop Notice

Maximising Director Benefits: A Comprehensive Guide

Pre-Trading Expenditure On A Buy-To-Let Explained

What You Need To Know About The Abolition of Furnished Holiday Lettings

Family Investment Companies – What You Need To Know

Meet Arnie: The AI Chatbot Revolutionizing Property Tax Assistance for Landlords

Furnished Holiday Lettings – What You Need To Know Next

Navigating the Continued 2.25% Director’s Loan Rate into 2024/25

Personal allowances for non-residents and dual residents

What Is an Associated Company?

A Closer Look at the Recent Capital Gains Tax Cut

Furnished Holiday Lets to End in April 2025

2024 Spring Budget Summary for Landlords

Short Term Lets in England Will Soon Need Planning Permission.

Changes to UK Company Law: What You Need To Know

Is It A Repair Or An Improvement?

Stamp Duty Land Tax & Buy To Let: Your Questions Answered

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