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SDLT – how commercial is ‘commercial’?
In Andrew Charles Ferguson & Gemma May Ferguson v HMRC [2026] TCO9782, the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) found that residential stamp duty land tax (SDLT) rates applied on a property purchase where a let paddock formed part of the grounds of the property. Julie Butler and Fred Butler look at the ...
SDT cases – signatures and undertakings
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has recently considered SRA allegations against property lawyers at different ends of the sanctions spectrum: a serious allegation relating to witnessing a signature and a relatively minor allegation on a breach of an undertaking. Nigel West reports
