Postby helpneeded » Thu Jan 27, 2022 1:04 pm
Hi Jerome, I paid a finder's fee of ca. £4,000 followed by 2 further fees to a property finder for a btl flat in Slovakia. The payments were all well within 7 years of the first letting. The first letting was for a period of 2 years, and, of course, there were then subsequent lettings. Question 1: reading your post and having read the part of the manual you refer to, is it correct that the fact that the initial letting was over a period greater than 1 year rules out my making a revenue claim for the outay? (It's a strange rule, since, even if the first letting had been for under a year, the whole purpose of the btl is to let out the flat for as many periods and as long as possible which means that if I'd let it out for ony 6 months initially I could claim these pre-letting costs as revenue, although I would certainly have done my level best to find another tenant immediately thereafter.) Question 2: as I cannot claim for revuenue costs now, will I be able to claim them against CGT when I eventually sell the flat. Thanks.