The government is to introduce VAT on the CON29 element of local authority searches from 1st January 2017.
Originally scheduled for February this year, HMRC delayed implementation until July to allow local authorities more time to prepare for the change. The July implementation was then postponed, in part due to objections from both the Law Society and the CIPFA VAT committee.
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There’s two types of drainage and water searches available on the market: The CON29DW, and regulated (also known as personal) searches. Superficially the two types of report are quite similar but there’s a number of key differences between the two. So which should you buy? (Obviously since we produce the CON29DW, we have a vested interest here, but we’ll be as unbiased as possible).
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The CON29DW generally contains two maps, one showing the location of public sewer assets, the other water. Both of these are extracts of official water company records, and are highlighted in questions 1.1 and 1.2 of the search.
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We’ve just added three Highways searches from PlanVal to our portfolio of searches. The three searches, Highways Lite, Highways Enquiry and Highways Standard with opinion reveal important information concerning property boundaries not shown in either local authority or Land Registry searches.
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