Lou Valdini
Can I claim tax relief for paying utility bills?
Author: Lou Valdini
28th August 2014, 12 years ago | 7
Lou Valdini
Registered with Property118.com
8th October 2013
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Recently retired and currently exiting the PRS.
Reply to comment left by James Brand at 28/08/2026 - 14:15
You cannot replace something which has already been paid (unless you are Rayner), unless HMRC repays it, then applies the new tax going forward. I realise this is Labour ideological tax policy, but surely, there would be huge legal challenges.
Read More →28th August 2026, 12 hours ago
No feed in tariff. They don't connect to the grid. They work only when the Sun shines and the electricity they produce must be used immediately because they can't connect to batteries. Next question, where would you put them? Sited...
Read More →28th August 2026, 12 hours ago
They are a false economy. For the government to say no installation is required is scandalous. The wiring needs to be checked and an outside socket fitted. Where would they be fitted in a flat? On a balcony if available?...
Read More →Reply to comment left by David Fox at 28/08/2026 - 10:24
Who pays the CT in the social housing sector?
Read More →27th August 2026, 1 day ago
I am always disgusted by what happens to supposed 'family' where money is involved. My Mother reached the stage where she was living with Dementia and could no longer function on her own. She had left everything to her husband,...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 26/08/2026 - 11:56
Hmm! 🤔
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 25/08/2026 - 12:19
I thought you had to be living there.
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 25/08/2026 - 11:52
Equity Release is back in fashion. Upside of Labour's economic chaos is rates are good. For those anticipating to somehow use their house as their pension, Equity Release may be the answer. It's a gamble against early death, but it...
Read More →25th August 2026, 4 days ago
I was living in a housing association property when I started my family in '77 and RTB didn't apply. I had a good job but no deposit for a house. To encourage me to leave, my housing association offered me...
Read More →21st August 2026, 1 week ago
With the government confirming more illegals will be sent to HMOs, it looks like councils see a lucrative gravy chain, funded by the taxpayer.
Read More →Reply to comment left by Robin Wilson at 20/08/2026 - 11:19
Reply to the comment left by Robin Wilson at 20/08/2026 - 11:19I could apply nearly all your comments to the growing millions of young NEETS, undeserving 'mental health' welfare claimants, illegal migrants and asylum seekers, most of whom will be...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Robin Wilson at 20/08/2026 - 11:39
Reply to the comment left by Robin Wilson at 11:39 I saw an appalling chart the other day which put the UK at the bottom of a list of countries who's people were emotionally connected to their country. The 'Boomer'...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Fergus Wilson at 20/08/2026 - 07:29
Reply to the comment left by Fergus Wilson at 07:29 How about an engineered global pandemic which mostly affects the old and infirm?
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ian Narbeth at 19/08/2026 - 12:53
Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 19/08/2026 - 12:53I always get annoyed when I hear how Thatcher was the cause of the housing crisis with 'right to buy'. As you say, if the tenants hadn't bought, they...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ian Narbeth at 19/08/2026 - 12:53
Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 19/08/2026 - 12:53'The PPI reports that only 65% of households aged 45 to 65 are currently owner-occupiers, around 15 percentage points fewer than 20 years ago. Those households are already in...
Read More →19th August 2026, 1 week ago
'The PPI reports that only 65% of households aged 45 to 65 are currently owner-occupiers, around 15 percentage points fewer than 20 years ago. Those households are already in the demographic pipeline; they cannot all be transformed into mortgage-free homeowners...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Fergus Wilson at 19/08/2026 - 11:59
Reply to the comment left by Fergus Wilson at 19/08/2026 - 11:59When I was very ill with covid right at the start of things, because of the chaos in hospitals my partner refused to have me admitted, fearing I wouldn't...
Read More →17th August 2026, 2 weeks ago
How will they deal with the often appalling condition and poor management of social housing?
Read More →14th August 2026, 2 weeks ago
My BTR investment decided they wouldn't start any new developments despite great returns, full occcupancy, and no arrears. They sold up soon after completing their final development. The new owners are not developers so no new starts.
Read More →Reply to comment left by joe bloggs at 13/08/2026 - 13:25
Reply to the comment left by Joe Bloggs at 13/08/2026 - 13:25Matt Cookson of Dickinson Egerton Block Management 01422 893727. Tell them Lou of the Pinnacle RTM Co recommended them. I should have mentioned, they are in Elland, West Yorkshire,...
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