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Oct 6, 2025
Investigations
The problem with unregulated tax advisers: a scheme from Property118 that could cost clients £100k+
Most of the HMRC losses from tax avoidance aren’t from multinationals or billionaires – they’re from small businesses, who’ve often been sold disastrous schemes by unregulated advisers. It’s a mis-selling problem as much as a tax problem. This report presents one example – but the internet is full of many, many others. The media focus […]
Oct 25, 2024
Analysis
Witness tampering from tax avoidance firm Property118?
HMRC has designated two structures used by the adviser ‘Property118’ as “tax avoidance schemes”. Property118 are appealing to a tax tribunal, and have asked their clients to provide witness statements. That’s perfectly normal. But what’s not normal at all is that Property118 are directing the content of the witness statements. It would be serious professional […]
Jul 22, 2024
Analysis
What to do if you received an HMRC stop notice from Property118?
Tens of thousands of people (including me!) just received this email from Property118, attaching a rather scary HMRC “stop notice” (PDF version here, or click on thumbnails below): We all received the email because we once downloaded an ebook from the Property118 website. What should you do if you’re in this position? Nothing. If all […]
Jul 14, 2024
Analysis
Property118 – more hopelessly wrong tax advice for landlords
We have previously reported on a high profile unregulated firm called “Property118”, which promoted a series of landlord tax avoidance schemes. HMRC took action, and Property118 has resorted to asking their clients to make donations to fund their appeals. Despite this, Property118 continues to promote tax avoidance that doesn’t work and will land its clients […]
Feb 14, 2024
Investigations
Property118: more denial from tax avoiders who’ve been caught
Last year we revealed an inept and dangerous landlord tax avoidance scheme promoted by Property118 and Cotswold Barristers. They responded with a weird campaign of denial, threats and abuse. HMRC then started to investigate, but Property118 didn’t tell their clients. HMRC’s conclusion? Property118 had unlawfully failed to notify HMRC they were promoting a tax avoidance […]
Nov 28, 2023
Investigations
HMRC is likely investigating the two big landlord tax avoidance firms. What should their clients do?
We recently wrote about two landlord tax avoidance outfits: Less Tax for Landlords and Property118. They together advised thousands of landlords, and avoided £100m+ of tax; we believe both firms, and their clients, are now the subject of HMRC investigations. Property118 Property118 sell a scheme that involves landlords declaring a trust over their rental properties […]
Nov 9, 2023
Investigations
What’s worse than a tax avoidance scheme? A badly implemented tax avoidance scheme.
We’ve reviewed multiple Property118 client files to investigate how they implement their tax avoidance scheme. We’ve found that the scheme is implemented so badly that our previous criticism is beside the point – a key drafting error means that the scheme fails immediately. It also appears that their clients receive templated “advice” which fails to […]
Oct 13, 2023
Investigations
A TV property pundit and YouTuber promotes Property118’s tax avoidance scheme. What he doesn’t say: he’s been paid over £500k for facilitating it
UPDATED 21 July 2024: Bhattacharya filed a DMCA takedown notice to try to remove this video from the internet. US fair use and UK fair dealing rules means it’s not going anywhere. UPDATED 20 July 2024: in early 2024, HMRC notified Property118 that this was a tax avoidance scheme that should have been disclosed under […]
Oct 6, 2023
Investigations
SLAPPed by tax avoidance firm “Property118”
We’re being SLAPPed by tax avoidance outfit “Property118” We said their landlord tax avoidance scheme didn’t work and, worse, could default your mortgage. Their lawyers have ordered us to retract our opinion, because they’ve paid for a secret KC opinion which we must defer to, but can’t publish. Our opinion is widely shared within the […]
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