Philby1

There would be no naming and shaming of landlords, just a website to help make it easier for the general public to inform HMRC about landlord tax evading practices. Help with filling in forms, reasons and information to why we should inform authorities about such negative social practice. I completely agree Bland Unsight that this can be seen from space and HMRC might be going after BTLers in due course, a website like this would just give the taxman an encouraging hand and I'm guessing once a report has been filed an investigation will take place? There's a form for informing about tax evasion on the HMRC's site https://online.hmrc.gov.uk/shortforms/form/TEH_IRF?dept-name=TEH&sub-dept-name=&location=39&origin=http://www.hmrc.gov.uk The sites dual job would be to provide negative sentiment about amateur landlords negative effects on community with a BIG social media push. If amateur landlords thought that remaining under the radar was less likely to happen and they were going to make a loss, could be a good deterrent and damaging to BTLers sentiment.

Hello all, I've been reading the forum for quite a while now and have learnt a lot from your opinions, ideas and sense discussed about housing and many other topics. Thank you for this. This is my first post and I'm not sure if it needs a thread of its own, if this idea has been mooted before or whether the idea is nonsense. Anyways, I was at work last week and there's a fella who owns 3 BTLs, I asked him what he thought of the budget and he replied he hadn't even looked. I went on to tell him about the changes to tax laws within BTL and he replied, don't care I don't declare anyway. He then came out with the usual spiv type rubbish you'd expect from a greedy self serving landlord. This obviously pissed me off and after thinking about the conversation for a while I thought is he the only landlord out there not declaring? Of course not, everyone knows some cheating landlord. Then I remembered the Government's campaign to shop Benefit fraudsters a few years ago. I think what HMRC needs is a little helping hand to identify these under the radar amateur BTLers and so they can eventually receive their nice juicy tax bills. My idea is to create a specialist Shop A Landlord Tax Evader website, made easy with all the forms and info about BTL fraud, the punishments for evasion etc... laid out in laymans terms. Backed up by a strong social media campaign to get the word out there. My web coding skills are non existent and my knowledge base about the subject hasn't sufficient depth, but I wondered if there's anyone out there with the right skills to make an idea like this happen? This might be an workable idea, but I thought I'd throw it out there!