Stamp duty land tax (SDLT) Practitioners’ News (formerly Newsletter) Issue 17 - March 2007

Contents

• 2-d bar-coded SDLT1 Return failures
  From 1 June 2007 we will start sending incomplete or incorrect returns back to customers.
• Question 59 - Authorising an agent to handle correspondence
  Stamp Taxes Helpline can only speak to agents if Question 59 on the land transaction return is answered ‘yes’.
• Netherton SDLT processing centre
  Please do not send any written correspondence to Netherton.
• Schedules: when they are required
• General Feedback
  Have your say.
• Stamp Taxes Online Internet pages
  These were recently reviewed and updated.
• Paper copies of online returns
  Please do not send paper copies of SDLT Returns submitted online, as there is a high risk they will be processed twice.
• Stamp Taxes Online: practical arrangements for practitioners
  A list of relevant website links.
• Stamp Taxes Online: feedback
  Using the Stamp Taxes Online feedback page.
• SDLT Online: - paying SDLT efficiently
• SDLT Online :Accessing Local Authority Numbers and SDLT calculators
• Meeting with Commercial Case Management Software Developers
  A constructive meeting was held on 18 December 2006.
• New rates of interest on stamp taxes paid late and overpaid
  Practitioners’ News Issue 16 - a clarification.
• Previous issues of the SDLT Practitioners’ Newsletter
• Quick Links
  Stamp Taxes ‘Welcome’ page.