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Agents say ‘distressed’ Simplify clients being chased twice for stamp duty
Payments to Simplify to settle their stamp duty bills are the latest casualty of the conveyancing giant's IT meltdown.
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LATEST: ARPM collapsed despite £245,000 government-backed Covid loan
Accounts for year ending May last year show company was lent the money via the HMRC's CBILS programme.
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Stamp duty holiday cost government £2.8 billion, latest figures reveal
While some agents have thanks the chancellor for his SDLT-prompted property boom this year, others wonder if it was all worth it.
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Is Purplebricks crumbling?
The recent announcement of a significant recasting of its business model leads Nigel Lewis to wonder where that leaves the great disruptor.
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Letting agents and landlords given 12 months longer to get ready for tax changes
Making Tax Digital initiative will see many landlords report income quarterly instead of annually but now not until 2024.
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HMRC’s ‘minister for stamp duty’ Jesse Norman is sacked
MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire and now former Treasury minister was instrumental in taking property industry feedback about introducing the stamp duty holiday.
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Property sourcing agency fined over AML error says ‘we reported it’
Estate agency Jess Simpson Ltd is fined £6,300 even though it voluntarily flagged up the mistake to HMRC after its own system spotted error.
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Extra 2% Stamp Duty for overseas buyers criticised by agents
NAEA Propertymark says additional duty is leading to plethora of sales fall-throughs as purchasers realised additional cost of buying property.
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EXCLUSIVE: Government reveals where all the landlords live in the UK
Agents wondering the size of their potential landlord market now have an answer after government published list via a parliamentary question.
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Property market turns into a ‘frenzy’ latest HMRC figures show
Record seasonally-adjusted home sales during June are nearly double the normal level of 100,000 for the month.
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