Monday, Jul 06, 2009
Why so much?
BBC News: Increase in Land Registry fees
The Land Registry unashamedly blames the increases on falling workload - any other business would be shedding staff.. does it really take £200 (on average) of staff time, just to change the name on a title deed..?
Posted by uncle tom @ 11:10 AM (519 views) Add Comment
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1. Pipsqueek said...
Why don't they do what other business do when demand falls, cut cost and lay off staff. The same number of staff will be doing less work so much for effiecency savings
2. doomwatch said...
The first(?) of many "stealth tax" increases I'm sure.
3. shipbuilder said...
In the same way as private firms, as pointed out by a few people on here, will eventually start to increase prices to preserve margins with reduced orders.
4. John_coller said...
Only £200, bargain!
These public sector workers need it to top up their million pound pension pots.
5. iguana said...
They finally got themselves computerised to save on the cost of all of the staff, the conveyancers complete the documents (and can do so 'online') updating title involves the same process whatever the value. True there are still 'unregistered' titles conveyed that involve recourse to pen and ink before being entered onto the register, but the scale charges are a nonsense.
Can we expect 'super-title' for the increased sum?
6. Johnny5thumbs said...
Well - what else does one expect from a govt. dept. about to privatise to the highest bidder. Land Reg. is going to be one of the plums in the next round of 'selling off the family silver'. The more profit racked up, the higher price achieved on the sale. Luvverly stuff !