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Principal Private Residence Relief

Jun 19, 2025
| Legal

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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.