For landlords and property owners, Principal Private Residence (PPR) Relief is one of the most valuable exemptions available under UK Capital Gains Tax (CGT) rules. It exempts gains made on the sale o...

Phase 2 of Making Tax Digital

Jun 12, 2025
| Legal

What Is Phase 2 of Making Tax Digital? Making Tax Digital (MTD) is a UK government initiative designed to modernise the tax system through the use of digital tools and processes. The aim is to reduce ...

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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

What You Need To Know About HMRC Enquiries & The Let Property Campaign

Nov 1, 2023
| Let Property Campaign

As the Self-Assessment deadline of January 31 looms ever closer, it’s a prudent moment to revisit the time constraints governing HMRC inquiries. These statutory timelines are crucial for both ta...

Deed of Trust And Form 17

Feb 2, 2023
| Legal

If a property is jointly owned between spouses, do you need to file a form 17 to HMRC? The confusion around this question became a sharp focus recently when a client engaged us to confirm the position...

Making Tax Digital for Landlords Delayed

Dec 23, 2022
| Making Tax Digital

A new MTD entry threshold of £30,000 will be set from April 2027, according to the government in their latest announcement around Making Tax Digital. As of 6 April 2026, a higher entry threshold of £5...

OTS Latest Findings Recommend HMRC Block Implementing MTD

Nov 14, 2022
| Making Tax Digital

Previously, we published a guide on Making Tax Digital for landlords in preparation for the government bringing in new Making Tax Digital (MTD) guidance imminently. It is our intention today to...

Let Property Campaign – What is it

Jan 6, 2022
| Let Property Campaign

What is the Let Property Campaign? Set up by HMRC many years ago, the Let Property Campaign is a long-running disclosure opportunity aimed at residential property landlords who need to bring their tax...

Thinking of incorporating a Partnership to save Stamp Duty on buy to let property? Don’t do it

Dec 9, 2021
| Company News

Do you have an existing property portfolio that you want to put into a Limited Company? Have you been told by many different notorious websites that you could create a Partnership and then incorporate...

SDLT and shared ownership

Oct 8, 2021
| Legal

Shared ownership can enable an individual to own a stake in a property where they would not otherwise be able to get on the housing ladder. As with other property purchases, stamp duty land tax (SDLT)...

Making Tax Digital (MTD) delayed to 2024

Sep 24, 2021
| 2 or more Property Landlords

The government has delayed the start of Making Tax Digital (MTD) to 6 April 2024. In a written statement to the House of Commons on 23 September 2021, it was announced that MTD for income tax self-as...

What we do during tax return season

Jan 8, 2021
| Capital Gains Tax

With self-assessment deadlines upon us, it’s a busy time of year for accountants all over the country and the same is certainly true for the property tax experts here at UK Landlord Tax.

Coming clean: the Let Property Campaign is an amnesty for secret landlords

Nov 5, 2020
| Let Property Campaign

The Let Property Campaign is a lifeline for accidental landlords who might not have realised they need to pay tax on rental income from their second property.

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