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PAS FAQs: overseas entities
Our Practice Advice Service considers the requirement for overseas entities that own UK land to register on the register of overseas entities, and whether rent paid to an unregistered overseas entity could constitute criminal property under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
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Awaab’s Law – Phase 2
Kerri Harrison and Baljit Basra look at the details of the second phase of Awaab’s Law and how practitioners can prepare for implementation
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 ...
