{"id":102948,"date":"2019-01-14T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/have-we-overpaid-our-stamp-duty-because-house-has-an-annexe\/"},"modified":"2019-01-14T14:03:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T07:03:37","slug":"have-we-overpaid-our-stamp-duty-because-house-has-an-annexe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/have-we-overpaid-our-stamp-duty-because-house-has-an-annexe\/","title":{"rendered":"Have we overpaid our stamp duty because house has an annexe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nA company claims we have overpaid \u00a36,208 but we are wary of pursuing thisQ I\u2019ve received three letters from a company claiming to be specialists in reclaiming stamp duty advising us that we may have overpaid \u00a36,208 in stamp duty when we bought our house because it has an annexe. They have offered to make a claim on our behalf on a no-win, no-fee basis (I\u2019m not sure what the fee would be but assume it would be a percentage of the successful claim).We purchased our house in September 2018 and it does indeed have a separate annexe, which has two units with a bedroom and a bathroom each (one also has a lounge) \u2013 the previous owners used this as accommodation for their sons and then more recently as a B&amp;B. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2019\/jan\/14\/have-we-overpaid-our-stamp-duty-because-house-has-an-annexe\" target=\"_blank\">Have we overpaid our stamp duty because house has an annexe?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; A company claims we have overpaid \u00a36,208 but we are wary of pursuing thisQ I\u2019ve&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-qMs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62786,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/generation-rent-why-ill-never-live-in-a-four-bed-family-semi-in-somerset-with-a-private-annexe\/","url_meta":{"origin":102948,"position":0},"title":"Generation rent: why I\u2019ll never live in a four-bed family semi in Somerset with a private annexe","date":"August 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r A rented room in a shared property is no place for a newbornI\u2019ve been paid a visit by Auntie B, a\u00a0delightful woman I\u2019ve known my whole life, though I\u2019m not sure how we\u2019re related. 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