HMRC published guidance on the new 5% rate of Stamp Duty Land Tax which applies for residential property transactions where the chargeable consideration exceeds £1 million and the effective date is on or after 6 April 2011.
Nigel Popplewell reviews the Budget 2011 Tax Proposals
Your impartial, need-to-know guide - plus links to all our detailed analysis (see end of article)
Patrick Cannon provides your guide to the new regime, which has so far received little publicity from HMRC
The Stamp Duty and Stamp Duty Reserve Tax (Investment Exchanges and Clearing Houses) (Revocation) Regulations, SI 2011/665, revoke from 1 April regulations that remove multiple charges to stamp duty and SDRT from transactions made on a regulated market, a multilateral trading facility or over the
The Stamp Duty Land Tax (Administration) (Amendment) Regulations, SI 2011/455, amend the land transaction return to provide extra information, in connection with a programme to move HMRC’s information technology systems to a
Marc Selby considers that this commonly held assumption is not always correct
Sara MacCullum identifies the tax issues that matter in 2010 for commercial property transactions
Patrick Cannon's end of year review
The Treasury launched on 9 December 2010 a consultation on draft legislation for Finance Bill 2011. The following brief outline of the measures is based on the Treasury’s overview and draft explanatory notes.