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We have updated several key guides for landlords and property owners this time and there are a couple of Private Residence relief (PRR) cases to report which may be of interest to advisers and potential property buyers.

The Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Jesse Norman, has written to Sir Amyas Morse asking him to send his report on the loan charge review to the new government after the general election.

In Desmond Higgins v HMRC [2019] EWCA Civ 1860, the Court of Appeal (CoA) has decided that the date of acquisition of an off-plan property for the purpose of  Capital Gains Tax (CGT) Private Residence Relief was the date of completion, and not at exchange of contracts. 

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This week, a case on trade tariffs; even more crazy than ‘VAT on milk shakes’ it transpires that the final tariff tie-breaker uses a process not unlike 'paper, scissors, stone'. 

In Trustees of the Panayi A&M Trusts Nos 1-4 v HMRC [2019] TC7406 the First Tier Tribunal interpreted UK law to conform with EU law and allowed Capital Gains Tax exit charges on the migration of a trust to be paid over a five year period.