Have you purchased an investment property, a second property, a multiple dwelling, mixed use property or a property within your pension scheme?
The chances are if you did purchase any of the above, that you were not correctly advised in relation to the amount of Stamp Duty you should have paid on the transaction. Stamp Duty legislation is complicated and contains over 40 different reliefs. Conveyancers and agents are often not aware of, or fully consider, the relief details. Typically they rely on the HMRC tax calculator which is overly simplified and quickly available. In addition, some relief may be claimed retrospectively.
We at Claims Supermarket can review the transaction for free, and if we consider you have overpaid Stamp Duty, we can seek to recover any amounts on a no win no fee basis. Unlike other firms, we are a professional, nationwide law firm, and we use qualified tax advisors on each case to ensure we only take cases forward with a strong chance of success.

SDLT is a self assessed tax and calculated by you or your advisors when you purchase a property be
that residential, commercial or even land. Rates differ and they are applied depending on the type of
property and the purchase price of the property.

If you purchased a property that meets any of the following criteria, you potentially could have overpaid SDLT:

• Have you purchased an investment property?
• Have you purchased a second home or a second home before you sold your original home?
• Have you purchased a property with an annexe?
• Have you purchased a property under a shared ownership scheme?
• Have you purchased a property which had defects such as: damp, structural issues, electrical issues, asbestos present, incomplete kitchen or bathroom.  (Note: This is not an exhaustive list so please contact us to discuss further).
• Have you purchased a property with mixed use, i.e. part of the building has a commercial use, such as a shop, or a farm.
• Have you transferred a property into a pension e.g. a SIPP

In order to submit a claim to HMRC for any overpaid SDLT, you must detail on what basis you believe you have been overcharged. This is a complicated and technical matter and we partner with a specialist tax advisory firm to ensure we detail in full the basis of the reclaim.

We will need to review the property transaction documents and the SDLT form submitted, but don’t worry if you don’t have these to hand, as our team will liaise with the relevant parties to get the documentation required.

We submit each claim with a complete report on how the SDLT came to be overcharged and the amount due back to you, on this basis HMRC typically take 8 weeks to process the reclaim as they have all the documentation they require at the point of submitting your reclaim.

HMRC typically say up to 4 years, however this is not a hard and fast rule and we believe that claims up to 6 years should be reviewed.

• Specialist tax advisors are involved on every case and if necessary we will pay for specialist advice.
• We take a professional approach to each case and will only pursue a HMRC rebate if we consider it has a real prospect of success.
• HMRC rebate claims are professionally and individually prepared and are submitted with the relevant evidence to support such a claim.
• We believe that by taking this approach you can be confident that you have a rebate claim with a strong prospect of success.
• Claims Supermarket will not charge you for the initial investigation and can work on a no win no fee to take a case forward.