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Sestini & Co | on Fri, 02/12/2016 - 12:35 | In
Buy to Let,
Letting Landlords: prepare yourselves for the change in treatment of property taxation and mortgage interest relief, warns Sestini & Co
Submitted by
Sestini & Co | on Thu, 12/04/2014 - 11:45 | In
Uncategorized Capital gains taxes
Not strictly part of this Autumn Statement, in fact this started just over a year ago as an announcement in Autumn Statement 2013 of an intention to extend the capital gains tax charge on property to non-residents. A big change with a wide-reaching impact, but not in essence a controversial one in a wider context given that most countries who have a capital gains tax (or similar) do extend it to non-residents.
A consultation was launched in March 2014 [- -]
Tags:
Anti-avoidance,
AS14,
AS2014,
ATED,
Autumn Statement 2014,
Mitigation,
Non-resident,
SDLT,
Succession,
Tax mitigation,
Tax update
Submitted by
Sestini & Co | on Sun, 10/06/2013 - 19:50 | In
Uncategorized Since its introduction in 2003 (and arguably prior to that date) SDLT has been a contraversial tax to say the least, as evidenced by the number of changes to the rates at which it is charged since its enactment. From a starting rate of 1% for properties costing at least £125,000 it now rises to 15% for properties purchased by certain “non-natural persons” for £2,000,000 or more.
One of the reasons for the controversy about SDLT is that it works on [- -]
