Rogue Landlords

by | 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 evasion in the buy-to-let sector.

In that year, HMRC estimated the amount of tax lost to residential landlords not declaring their income was £540 million.

The report recommends that the government introduce a national register of rental properties to improve tax compliance in the buy-to-let sector.

Read the full report here.

This research was featured in Vice, the Mail on Sunday, Law360, and Tax Notes International among others.

Photo by Ethan Wilkinson on Unsplash

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