Budget 2024: Hunt confirms purchase of nuclear sites and east London homes funding

Chancellor also raises VAT threshold for small businesses and cuts Capital Gains Tax on domestic property sales

GLA urges government to insist on whole-life carbon assessments

The Architects’ JournalGLA urges government to insist on whole-life carbon assessments London politicians have urged the government to make whole-life carbon (WLC) assessments compulsory for new buildings and to cut VAT on all retrofit projects The post GLA urges government to insist on whole-life carbon assessments appeared first on The Architects’ JournalKit Heren

London Property Alliance urges government to remove VAT from retrofits

The London Property Alliance (LPA) has called on the government to remove VAT for retrofitting projects - one of a raft of measures it said it would like to see introduced in the Autumn Statement.

Winding-up petitions from HMRC on the rise, official figures say

Tax man increaingly drawing ‘line in sand’ over non-payment of PAYE and VAT, experts warn

Tiler convicted of VAT fraud

A tiling contractor has been given a two-year suspended jail sentence of defrauding the tax man of nearly half a million pounds.

Architects' Journal - RetroFirst: The Greenest Building is the One that Already Exists (long version), 27052021

This video promotes the Architects’ Journal’s RetroFirst campaign and highlights why we should consider RetroFit first. A staggering 50,000 buildings are demolished every year. Fossil fuel-hungry materials like cement and steel are gobbled up as they are erased and replaced with shiny new structures. This wasteful system is encouraged by the planning rules and a system of VAT which makes demolition and rebuild cheap and refurbishment and retrofit expensive.

Architects' Journal - RetroFirst: The Greenest Building is the One that Already Exists, 27052021

A staggering 50,000 buildings are demolished every year. Fossil fuel-hungry materials like cement and steel are gobbled up as they are erased and replaced with shiny new structures. Shockingly, this wasteful system is encouraged by the planning rules and a system of VAT which makes demolition and rebuild cheap and refurbishment and retrofit expensive. But what if we reform this approach to reuse existing buildings wherever possible?

Old course notes - CEM, VAT on Land & Buildings

CPD Study Pack from the College of Estate Management that: - provides an appreciation of the general operation of VAT - highlights the importance of the ability to recover VAT paid out on business activities - recognises those property transactions where VAT must be charged - recognise equally those property transactions where VAT may be charged, and where VAT cannot be charged - looks at how to apply the effects of the VAT rules when considering the marketing or the valuing of property

Can net zero carbon targets be helped by a change in tax such as VAT to zero for refurbishment and reuse and 20% on new build?