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Property losses for individuals

Produced by Tolley in association with of Crane Dale Tax, part of AMS Group
Owner-Managed Businesses
Guidance

Property losses for individuals

Produced by Tolley in association with of Crane Dale Tax, part of AMS Group
Owner-Managed Businesses
Guidance
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This guidance note sets out how individuals can obtain tax relief for losses incurred in a rental business.

For income tax purposes, rental profits from land and buildings are categorised as either:

  1. •

    a UK property business, or

  2. •

    an overseas property business, see the Overseas property business for individuals guidance note

England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland make up the countries of the UK. The Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are treated as overseas for the purposes of the legislation.

This means that UK rental profits are pooled together and reported as one business, and overseas rental profits are pooled together and reported as one business. This guidance note refers to a UK property business, but the rules apply equally to an overseas property business.

The exceptions to this are:

  1. •

    furnished holiday lettings which are calculated and reported separately up to 6 April 2025 when the FHL tax regime will be abolished, see the Furnished holiday lets guidance note. From 6 April

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Rob Durrant-Walker
Rob Durrant-Walker

Tax Director at Crane Dale Tax , Corporate Tax, OMB, Personal Tax


Rob is a cross-tax advisor with a particular focus on property tax planning, and business structure planning for OMB’s. He provides tax advice to other accounting firms, balancing commerciality, ethics, and understanding complexity. His 30+ years of experience start at the Inland Revenue in Hull. After completing his ATT and CTA by 1999 with PKF, he subsequently worked at KPMG and UHY prior to managing the business tax team as a director at Garbutt + Elliott. Rob is now Tax Director at the independent tax consultancy, Crane Dale Tax. He is a regular author for Taxation magazine with many articles and Readers Forum contributions since 2005, and he contributes as a virtual member to the CIOT Property Tax technical committee. Rob works remotely from Vancouver in Canada.

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