Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June to Question 149630 on student private rented housing; what estimate his Department has made of the expected contribution to the public purse of the removal of tax advantages from holding UK property through offshore companies.

At Budget 2016 it was announced that, from July 2016, offshore property developers would be taxed on all the profits they make from developing UK land. The latest estimate of this measure’s yield is set out on page 212 of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook: March 2018.

The government announced at Autumn Budget 2017 that from April 2019 non-residents would be taxed on all the gains they make from UK land and buildings and from April 2020 the rental income received by offshore companies would be subject to the same tax rules and rates which apply to property income as UK companies. The estimated yield of these measures is set out in table 2.1 of the Autumn Budget 2017 document.