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The government has provided an update on the proposed registration scheme for short-term lets in England, and announced measures which will require planning permission for future short-term lets.
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Companies House has given notices of a rise in its fees and the costs of Registration of an Overseas Entity have increased by 134%. Who realised that there is a cost to remove an Entity from the ROE?
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Double cab pick-up: a car or van? The answer might lie in the number of passenger doors, but even the physicist Erwin Schrödinger might have been bemused to find that HMRC has announced that soon it will no longer interpret the meaning of 'car' for Benefit In Kind (BIK) and capital allowance purposes in line with the VAT definition. It will, during a transitional period, accept that cars may be vans, meaning that advantage can be taken of the current rules for a time.
The Upper Tribunal has confirmed a major unfairness in the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) rules. If you have submitted a return on the basis that properties are non-residential and subsequently the subject matter is confirmed residential property, there is no mechanism to go back and claim Multiple Dwelling Relief (MDR) after the 12-month return amendment period.
Can you make a late claim for Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) relief? Ten appellants joined forces to test the tax rules on making a late claim for Multiple Dwelling Relief (MDR). The FTT found that their late claims were a result of 'making a mistake' with a tax claim and thus they were defeated by the basic rules for Overpayment Relief.
HMRC's latest one-to-many letters are being sent to taxpayers who have disposed of shares and omitted share disposals from their tax returns.
A taxpayer who mistakenly believed that no Capital Gains Tax (CGT) would arise when transferring properties to a company owned by his wife was unable to unwind the transaction for CGT purposes. His CGT liability remained.