Accidental Landlord

oldwiring

Someone commented negatively on my original image from an email attachment. Here is something better, hopefully, direct from Saturday Telegraph. It is considerably expanded from the original.

MaryNB

oldwiring said:

Someone commented negatively on my original image from an email attachment. Here is something better, hopefully, direct from Saturday Telegraph. It is considerably expanded from the original.

There's a very simple solution. Spend a couple hundred pounds on a registry wedding, save £59k. 
Correction: Was very simple solution. I didn't realise wedding were effectively cancelled but with the post Christmas lockdown inevitable and the end of the stamp duty holiday well advertised, they could easily have had a registry wedding last year. £59k is a lot of money to risk. 

AdrianC

Add in "now five months pregnant" for extra Grand Designs Drinking Game points.
<works backwards four months on fingers>
So that'll be... SEPTEMBER! When the first wedding they cancelled was due.

"This newspaper is campaigning for the tax break to be extended so that buyers are not penalised because of circumstances outside their control"
So which bit was outside their control?
Covid? Been a factor for ten months now.
Wedding? Could have got hitched on plenty of opportunities between September and the current lockdown coming in on 5th Jan.
Pregnant? Who'd like to be the one to explain "contraception" to them?
Buying a house? Don'cha just hate waking up in the morning and finding you've bought a million quid house unexpectedly?
What am I missing?

Angela_D_3

Thing is theres nothing stopping them having the big day when all this is over but just do the legal bit.  Has nobody thought of yhat 

greatcrested

I fail to see how posting the full article changes anything about the responses you've received on this ridiculous thread.

AdrianC

MaryNB said:

oldwiring said:

Someone commented negatively on my original image from an email attachment. Here is something better, hopefully, direct from Saturday Telegraph. It is considerably expanded from the original.

There's a very simple solution. Spend a couple hundred pounds on a registry wedding, save £59k. 
Correction: Was very simple solution. I didn't realise wedding were effectively cancelled but with the post Christmas lockdown inevitable and the end of the stamp duty holiday well advertised, they could easily have had a registry wedding last year. £59k is a lot of money to risk. 

Oh, and ignore the misleading headline - it's £30k, 3% of £1m. The £59k figure includes the £29k they'd have to pay anyway.

davidmcn

greatcrested said:

I fail to see how posting the full article changes anything about the responses you've received on this ridiculous thread.

It increases the copyright contravention from MSE's point of view...

MaryNB

AdrianC said:

MaryNB said:

oldwiring said:

Someone commented negatively on my original image from an email attachment. Here is something better, hopefully, direct from Saturday Telegraph. It is considerably expanded from the original.

There's a very simple solution. Spend a couple hundred pounds on a registry wedding, save £59k. 
Correction: Was very simple solution. I didn't realise wedding were effectively cancelled but with the post Christmas lockdown inevitable and the end of the stamp duty holiday well advertised, they could easily have had a registry wedding last year. £59k is a lot of money to risk. 

Oh, and ignore the misleading headline - it's £30k, 3% of £1m. The £59k figure includes the £29k they'd have to pay anyway.

Ah ok. I think my eyes rolled before I could read any further.

There can't possibly be a soul in this country (except those with the tinfoil hats) that didn't know by autumn that there would be a lockdown after Christmas. £30k is a lot of money to risk (well for most people anyway...). My sympathy wanes further with the £1m property....
I know two people who had their large gatherings cancelled over the summer but continued with the legal part last year, as I'm sure so many other did. No reason they couldn't have done the same. I will say I'm bias as I would loath having a large wedding, that's before I'd even consider the cost of it.

theartfullodger

f..f...s....   been married 3 times, once with witnesses being a passing traffic warden & receptionist from dentist opposite.  Just reg office fees plus pressies for witnesses.  

IMHO get married for yourselves, not worrying if auntie Rosie will be upset at cousin George's attendance.  And spend the money on your lives, not the caterers.

I'd never buy the Torygraph.

oldwiring

greatcrested said:

[quote]I fail to see how posting the full article changes anything about the responses you've received on this ridiculous thread.[/quote]

There was at least the revenue comment about dealing with exceptional conditions. And, who are you to decide the worth of any input to the forum?

The thread was about HMRC (government) dealing fairly with cases arising exception out of Covid 19, but many have liked to attack the couple instead for abilty to buy a £1 million dwelling without knowledge of how come by, or London-SE prices. I can understand, however, a certain lack of sympathy for them.

MaryNB said:

 

[quote]There can't possibly be a soul in this country (except those with the tinfoil hats) that didn't know by autumn that there would be a lockdown after Christmas. £30k is a lot of money to risk (well for most people anyway...). My sympathy wanes further with the £1m property.... 
I know two people who had their large gatherings cancelled over the summer but continued with the legal part last year, as I'm sure so many other did. No reason they couldn't have done the same. I will say I'm bias as I would loath having a large wedding, that's before I'd even consider the cost of it. [/quote]

 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1385155/Tax-rises-rishi-sunak-stamp-duty-council-tax-march-budget

The above is not the one I saw from the  Daily Express in Google News yesterday. Though some recasting of tax burden by removing National Insurance contributions on earnings, replacement of rates and stamp duty was mooted. Whilst Income Tax and NIcs form a considerable part of total reliable revenue, the latter kicks in before the former, once paid on a week’s/ month’s earnings is lost, because not related to annual income, with the further unfairness of a cut off point for the higher paid. Rates, too, fall on occupants, no matter the income, rather than the owners.