by Sarah Walton | Aug 9, 2023
The tax treatment of furnished holiday properties appears inappropriately generous and could encourage owners to lock away much needed housing stock to save thousands of pounds in income and capital gains taxes. The regime, dating back to the 1980s is in desperate...
by Sarah Walton | Aug 9, 2023
9th August 2023 • Income and capital gains on holiday let properties taxed less than those for ordinary rented properties • TaxWatch analysis shows owners can pay thousands of pounds per year less in income tax, and tens of thousands less in capital gains tax • Regime...
by Alex Dunnagan | Aug 5, 2020
5th August 2020 Landlord tax evasion costing up to £1.7bn a year Summary Tax evasion by residential landlords could be costing the Treasury up to £1.73 billion a year, a new analysis by TaxWatch has found. This is more than three times the amount reported for 2010,...
by Alex Dunnagan | Aug 5, 2020
Up to £1.73 billion a year in tax is being dodged by unscrupulous landlords. The new figures are revealed in a report by TaxWatch, and suggests that levels of non-compliance have exploded since 2010, the last time that HMRC published official figures on the scale of...