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Residential property sales were up by 7% in July compared to the same month year, with 90,630 transactions, official figures show. But...

HM Revenue & Customs has named 92 schemes which it says are involved in tax avoidance - and it admits this...

It’s been revealed by Propertymark that HM Revenue & Customs has fined agents over £1.6m for branches of anti-money laundering regulations. The...

The latest figures from HM Revenue and Customs show that inheritance tax receipts increased to £5.2 billion in the eight months...

An ex-ARLA supremo says technology is the best way for letting agents to cope with a huge rise in telephone calls. ARLA...

Letting agents have been told they must have the right technology to reduce the risk of fraud. Olly Thornton-Berry, co-founder of risk...

The UK lettings and estate agency is being targeted by crime syndicates in order to launder dirty money. That’s the claim of...

A technology platform claims that as many as a third of lettings agencies that should be compliant with anti-money laundering regulations...

Agents have been reminded they can claim tax relief on the membership fees they pay to professional bodies that are approved...

HM Revenue & Customs officers are paying short-notice visits on letting and estate agents to check on their anti-money laundering compliance,...

Two lettings agencies are amongst three property agents which have been fined by HM Revenue & Customs for breaching anti-money laundering...

There are just two weeks left for letting agents to register with HM Revenue & Customs if they want to be...

An investigation is underway into a lettings agency which has gone into liquidation owing almost £500,000 in rent to landlords and in...

A stamp duty cut could reinvigorate the buy to let market and the wider economy as the country comes out of...

HM Revenue & Customs has issued a new warning to buy to let and Holliday home owners about a major change...

It’s been revealed that a clampdown on the buy to let sector by HM Revenue and Customs has produced millions of...

It’s here - the Fifth EU Money Laundering Directive comes into force today with significant challenges and implications for letting agents. The...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it will be issuing resources to support for lettings agents in the coming days...

Haart is trying to shift the mood music around the private rental sector from challenging to celebratory, saying there is plenty...

A trade body suggests that the votes of private landlords could decide the results in over 100 constituencies in next week’s...

The Chartered Institute of Taxation is urging tenants not to ignore a letter if they receive one from HM Revenue &...

The BBC is reporting that the short lets giant Airbnb has been contacted by HM Revenue & Customs about its tax...

HM Revenue & Customs has launched what appears to be a fishing expedition to find out information about investor landlords who...

A campaign by HM Revenue & Customs to encourage buy to let investors to ‘fess up’ to their unpaid tax has...

The UK’s holiday lets sector could be a beneficiary of the current Brexit uncertainty and people not vacationing abroad because they...

An analysis of data released by HM Revenue and Customs shows that 1.9 million people earned money from property in 2015-16...

HM Revenue & Customs has launched a consultation on adding tax checks to private rental sector licensing schemes - in other...

Stamp duty reform for first time buyers has taken pride of place in the Budget speech of Chancellor Phillip Hammond.   From today,...

A council claims that up to 13,000 private landlords are “of interest” to HM Revenue and Customs, where there are alleged...

An economics academic says the country’s taxpayers should be “very angry” with the government for failing to collect taxes to which...

A landlord who ran multiple property companies but failed to declare his income or that he was a company director to...

A self-employed property investor and caterer who stole over £70,000 in a tax credit fraud, has been jailed.   Khalid Farid, 59, from...

HM Revenue & Customs has launched a 12-week consultation on a proposal which it claims simplifies the tax demands levied on...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has revealed what it calls “worryingly low levels of enforcement of rented housing regulations” by local authorities. Using...

HM Revenue & Customs and the Treasury have at last responded to the legal team representing two landlords challenging beleaguered Chancellor...

HM Revenue and Customs has published the responses it has received to its 12 week consultation on changing the Wear and...

A businessman has been jailed for two years for failing to declare and pay tax on income he received from his...

A campaign targeting residential landlords has given HM Revenue and Customs an additional tax take of over £50m.  The Let Property Campaign,...

A survey for a lettings organisation has confirmed the belief that the government’s removal of tax breaks on landlords will almost...