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Small business owner, family man and small portfolio landlord with more than 20 years' experience and fewer than 3 properties held outside a limited company.
"Working very hard to provide essential family accommodation."
Reply to comment left by Paddy Murphy at 24/10/2026 - 10:10
Reply to the comment left by Paddy Murphy at 24/10/2026 - 10:10Publication on the internet would be unfair, excessive and also dangerous. It would be a gift both for fraudsters and also nutcases who want to physically attack landlords. If...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Judith Wordsworth at 24/10/2026 - 11:24
Reply to the comment left by Judith Wordsworth at 24/10/2026 - 11:24It is certainly true that some larger building groups have said recently that the economics of building in London don’t add up. The government doesn’t seem to have grasped...
Read More →Reply to comment left by David Fox at 24/10/2026 - 14:55
If you have ever been self-employed then you may have experienced a similar problem. If they over-tax tax you it takes many, many months to get the money back. And their proposals for MTD are to tax you on the...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Grumpy Doug at 23/10/2026 - 15:39
Reply to the comment left by Grumpy Doug at 23/10/2026 - 15:39I know a lot of electricians, plumbers, roofers and traders who will just go "**** you MTD" and start taking cash again.
Read More →Reply to comment left by Collin Williamson at 23/10/2026 - 14:27
Reply to the comment left by No hate plz at 23/10/2026 - 14:27Of course they did. The reason the council published the details of landlords on its website as a spreadsheet is because they were ignorant and incompetent. If it's...
Read More →Reply to comment left by G Master at 20/10/2026 - 18:47
Reply to the comment left by G Master at 20/10/2026 - 18:47It isn't just landlords who will experience the negative effects of Making Tax Digital. Small landlords and the self-employed will all be caught by it. HMRC have reported an...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Collin Williamson at 23/10/2026 - 13:55
Reply to the comment left by No hate plz at 23/10/2026 - 13:55Marketing letters are one issue....I get a stream of them via the Land Registry but at least the people targeting you have to pay for that and enter...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 23/10/2026 - 11:45
I think it is supposed to be HMRC running this database and they are supposed to follow GDPR rules as well, not broadcast bits of your tax return and sensitive personal data to the world. MPs are keen enough to...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Kevin Wade at 22/10/2026 - 09:56
Reply to the comment left by Kevin Wade at 22/10/2026 - 09:56Yes that's right....and I think there's a mis-spelling here. It's not draft PRS Database regulations....it should be daft PRS Database regulations. I didn't sign up to the database last...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Andy Perry at 22/10/2026 - 12:42
Hardly any labour MP has ever run a business. This is Money just reported something related to this as well: https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/smallbusiness/article-16205133/Why-traditional-corporate-career-effectively-dead-quarter-workers.html What they said was: "Six in 10 adults believe traditional jobs are less secure than they used to be.....more...
Read More →22nd October 2026, 2 days ago
A parallel, related issue has just been highlighted by the Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/uk-jobs-employment-tax-national-insurance-economy-b3070620.html What this says is "Unemployment levels remain high in the UK and a bigger issue is the falling number of available jobs, which has hit a five-year low...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Mick Roberts at 21/10/2026 - 17:55
Reply to the comment left by Mick Roberts at 21/10/2026 - 17:55The moral of the story being, don't do anything in a hurry...fiscal policy is designed to trip people up....act in haste, repent at leisure (although you'll probably have less...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Mick Roberts at 21/10/2026 - 17:01
Reply to the comment left by Mick Roberts at 21/10/2026 - 17:01Giving a rented house to the kids now would probably trigger a CGT charge (unless there'd been a loss). Waiting will probably trigger an IHT bill later. If you...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Jay Hall at 20/10/2026 - 13:50
Reply to the comment left by Jay Hall at 20/10/2026 - 13:50As far as I can see from the evidence that's out there I think rents are rising in some places falling in others; my agent now advises me to...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Oliver Tandy at 17/10/2026 - 15:52
Reply to the comment left by Oliver Tandy at 17/10/2026 - 15:52This is interesting experience: As a landlord, what evidence of antisocial behaviour do you need in order to be able to take action against a tenant? And how do...
Read More →Reply to comment left by JB at 21/10/2026 - 12:44
I think you are correct when you say this government hasn't a clue about economics or business, and they don't have much idea of how to grow the economy either, even though that is critical to paying for defence or...
Read More →Reply to comment left by David at 21/10/2026 - 11:17
I’m not disagreeing with you but the current government has run into difficulty with inheritance tax and the farming lobby for similar reasons. Margins in farming are very low and it is hard for one generation of farmers to establish...
Read More →Reply to comment left by David at 21/10/2026 - 09:16
In a way you are just re-iterating the point that Mark is making: Under the present government you are punished for running a business (such as a property business) and as you approach retirement you are then also to be...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Alan Boden at 18/10/2026 - 02:22
Reply to the comment left by Bristol Landlord at 18/10/2026 - 02:22It's an interesting story and for anyone considering these issues an additional factor is that even if you are living abroad, if you are invested in land and property...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Mick Roberts at 19/10/2026 - 11:35
Reply to the comment left by Mick Roberts at 19/10/2026 - 11:35Hardly any labour MP has ever run a business so labour governments typically have very little real-world experience. But companies are a much bigger club and if the government...
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