RLA tax demands submitted to Government

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RLA evidence on Stamp Duty, Mortgage Interest Relief and Capital Gains Tax has been officially submitted to Government.
The association’s submission to the Finance Bill committee has called for new build properties to be exempted from the new Stamp Duty levy. It is also calling for Mortgage Interest Relief to apply only to new borrowing and for Capital Gains Tax to be reduced to 20% where a landlord is selling a property to a sitting tenant.
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Call of the week – deposit protection and evictions

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The Landlord Advice Team assists with all sorts of advice for landlords but the bulk of our queries fall into two categories; deposit protection and evictions.
For evictions, most of the time these are relatively simple to resolve as the fixed term is ending or coming to end so we advise a section 21 notice. However sometimes the tenant has only recently moved in but has already become a nightmare for the landlord.
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An end to “7 day evictions”

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There has been an increasing trend to transfer county court evictions – once a possession order has been obtained at county court level – to the high court for a much faster eviction process, using High Court Enforcement Officers (HCEOs). However, according to eviction specialists Landlord Action, recent changes to the process of accelerated possession […]

… LandlordZONE.

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