by peter littlewood | Oct 13, 2023 | Tax & Other Financial
Holiday home owners will have their bank account details scraped by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) as part of a global tax crackdown. From January 2024, rental platforms, food delivery apps, freelance websites and others facilitating various “side hustles” (an extra...
by peter littlewood | Oct 13, 2023 | Industry News
Spending on temporary accommodation by council homelessness services in England rose to more than £1.7 billion in the year to March, with bed and breakfast costs up by a third. Housing charity Shelter branded the situation “outrageous” and “illogical”, accusing the...
by peter littlewood | Oct 13, 2023 | Tax & Other Financial
Landlords grappling with tax returns have been given some advice – file them sooner, rather than later. Data analysed by business consultancy Hargreaves Lansdown shows that almost 250,000 people filed a self-assessment tax return in the first week of the tax...
by peter littlewood | Oct 13, 2023 | Industry News
John Lewis Partnership, has named a new director of property to lead its controversial Build To Rent initiative. Martin Gafsen will take up the post on November 13; he was property and facilities director for the Royal Mail Group for 16 years, with responsibilities...
by peter littlewood | Oct 11, 2023 | Industry News
The built environment profession has broadly welcomed Labour’s plans to overhaul the planning system and deliver the next new towns In his speech this week (10 October) to the Labour Party conference, leader Keir Starmer said that his government would fix England’s...