The Big Landlord Tax Increase : How to Beat the Cut in Mortgage Tax Relief - 2020/21 Edition

Publication date: July 2020 – Plain English guide with dozens of examples and tax planning tips.

Many landlords are seeing their tax bills increase significantly because the tax relief on buy-to-let mortgages has been reduced. 

In some cases the result is a significant drop in after-tax income (50% in one of the examples).

This guide explains how the new rules operate and what you can do to beat the tax increase, including:

• Transferring properties to your spouse/partner
• Using a company
• Selling property
• Reducing your buy-to-let mortgages
• Employing family members
• Using alternative investment structures
• Investing in other types of property
• Increasing or postponing tax deductible expenses
• Bringing forward finance costs
• Becoming non-resident
• Making pension contributions

This new edition has been fully updated to take account of the current economic climate and tax changes announced in the July 2020 Summer Statement.

For example, the guide explains why now may be the best time to transfer residential properties into a company (one worked example shows how one landlord saves well over £100,000!) and why now may be the best time to transfer mortgaged properties to your husband or wife.