A prospective purchaser has asked whether I would agree to sell the paddock separately as this will result in reducing the
stamp duty land tax liability payable by him on the purchase of the house.
A senior official from Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs has spent two days working with Warwickshire-based Lodders to see for himself the issues that
stamp duty land tax has created both for property lawyers and their clients.
A spokeswoman said: 'The
Stamp Duty Land Tax zero- rate threshold has not been updated since 1993, when average house prices stood at pounds 64,000.
"In spring 2015, I will be publishing consultations on the Welsh replacements for
stamp duty land tax and landll tax, to prepare the ground for legislation early in the next Assembly term.
We also need a reform of
stamp duty land tax thresholds.
A senior official from Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has spent two days working with Warwickshire law firm Lodders to see for himself the issues that
Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) has created both for property lawyers and their clients.
I have inherited a house from my grandmother and have been told I will have to pay
stamp duty land tax when the property is transferred from her name to mine.
First-time buyers were faced with a bill for
Stamp Duty Land Tax, to give stamp duty its official name.
Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) is still causing problems for developers nearly two years after it was introduced, according to Simon Littlejohns, tax partner at accountants and business advisers PKF (UK) in Birmingham.
A UK Treasury spokeswoman: "
Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) is a progressive tax.