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How to buy a home: preparing to buy, deciding on a home, making offers, conveyancing, paying Stamp Duty Land Tax and making complaints.

• Overview

  Buying a home takes about 5 months on average. The process can take longer…

• Preparing to buy

  When you decide you want to buy a home, you may need to get a mortgage to…

• Deciding on a home

  There are different ways to own a property. Leasehold and freehold…

• Making an offer

  Before you make an offer, check: what the property is worth the number of…

• Transferring ownership (conveyancing)

  Once the offer is accepted, the seller is responsible for drawing up a…

• Tax

  You may need to pay: Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) when you buy a home in…

• Making a complaint

  You can make a complaint to a company involved in the sale if you’re…

How to issue a winding up petition - forms and fees to wind up a company to recover any money you're owed.

• Overview

  You can apply to the court to close or ‘wind up’ a company if it cannot…

• Apply

  You must send the right form to the court before they can deal with your…

• The court hearing

  If the court accepts your petition, they’ll arrange a date for a hearing.…

Tax and reporting rules for employers who make assets available to employees

• Overview

  As an employer making assets available for use by your employees, you have…

• What's exempt

  You do not have to report anything to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) or pay…

• What to report and pay

  If the asset is not exempt, you must report it to HM Revenue and Customs…

• Work out the value

  There are 2 steps to working out how much your asset is worth: Take the…

• Technical guidance

  The following guide contains more detailed information: assets placed at…

• Updated: 1 January 2014

Tax and reporting rules for assets bought, sold or given

FCDO travel advice for Venezuela. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

• Updated: 10 March 2026

Your right to buy your council home - including how to apply, who is eligible, discounts available and where to get help and advice.

FCDO travel advice for Guatemala. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

• Updated: 17 February 2026

Value the estate of someone who's died so that you can get probate: work out if tax is due, check how to report the estate's value, complete the correct form.

What Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is, how to work it out, current CGT rates and how to pay.