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Hi Tessa,
Thank you for your latest blog.
Re your quote: “Government and the authorities consider landlords to be providers of a consumer service” ….Indeed, indeed, yes, landlords ARE providing a service!….IE running a business with huge penalties for default (as you rightly say “ignorance of the law is never a defence”) etc, so how can it possibly be legal that landlords are instead treated like investors for tax? Is this not against our human rights? Are not the HMRC breaching their own codes/definitions/tests of the difference between an investment and a business?
Yours sincerely,
Steve
A lot of landlords, as I can see from the survey results so far, are extremely unhappy about the way they are treated for tax.
I think however you would have an uphill battle challenging tax on the basis of the human rights legislation – the recent challenge to the new rules brought by two landlords failed partly on this point I think.
The business / investor point is a good one but I don’t do tax and this blog is not really about tax.
It is something you should raise with your MP. If ALL landlords contacted their MP about it there would be a better chance of something being done.