Cgt - Uk Lbo Firms Resigned To Losing Fight Over Tax Rise

[Alfie Moon]

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-16/u-k-lbo-firms-resigned-to-losing-fight-over-tax-rise-update1-.html

U.K. LBO Firms Resigned to Losing Fight Over Tax Rise (Update1)

June 16, 2010, 5:30 AM EDT

Interesting read.

[Gigantic Purple Slug]

There is another article here :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1286920/Osborne-strip-FSA-powers-set-financial-watchdog-inside-Bank-Of-England.html

that we can add comments to.

[Alfie Moon]

There is another article here :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1286920/Osborne-strip-FSA-powers-set-financial-watchdog-inside-Bank-Of-England.html

that we can add comments to.

Thanks - hopefully this will help Estate Agents get a few more phone calls from BTL'ers wanting to put their BTL properties on the market. Here at work, anecdotally, I'm certainly hearing about people with 1 or 2 BTL properties putting them on the market due to the CGT rise (whatever the rise might be) and also the rapidly deteriorating property market (real fears of major price falls) and the wider economy, and personal concerns about job security .... and also (from one person) a fear about if they don't sell up now the market is going to be flooded with other BTL'ers properties. Just anecdotal hearsay but if its being repeated around the country ......