The Liver Building

Navigating the Risk: What Conveyancers Need to Know About SDLT (online)

Details

Speaker: Amanda Perrotton

Date: Wednesday 1st October, 2025

Time: 11:00 - 12:30

Areas of Law: Property

Competencies: B

Venue:
Online

Course Code: S4920

Description

This event is aimed at anyone in the residential conveyancing team, commercial property team, private client who find themselves inadvertently giving tax advice within their transactions, when they are not insured to do so. This applies to most.

Covering:

  • Identifying when a fee earner could be giving uninsured or unqualified advice
  • Demonstrating the pitfalls and risks of doing so
  • Discussing how the SRA deals with Solicitors firms giving tax advice
  • Reviewing departmental policies, procedures and letters of engagement to reduce the risk
  • Areas of Risk
  • Surcharges on second homes
  • CGT exemptions
  • Transfers of Equity
  • Case studies
  • Money Laundering Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds Regulations 2017
  • CQS SDLT policy

Can’t make the date/time or need to revisit the training? No problem, booking onto any online or hybrid event means you will receive a link to access a recording of the event at your leisure!

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Speaker Biographies

Amanda is a qualified solicitor of 28 years with a wealth of expertise advising clients in the property sector. She has owned her own High Street Legal Practice and been a former Managing Partner of a four partner law firm. She has knowledge and experience of not only Residential and Commercial Property transactions but also the regulatory and compliance aspects of running a Law Practice.  She is a Trusts and Estate Practitioner (TEP) and a member of The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, the premier qualification for private client, trust, tax and wealth advisory matters.

Amanda holds the office of Trustee of an ecclesiastical trust to advise on property held within that trust, and is a Business Mentor for the Princes Trust. She is a published author writing for HMRC Tax Investigations Enquiries and Powers professional journal.

Prices

Member £55
Non-member £70
Training Passport Free
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