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(1) This Order may be cited as the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Tax Rates and Tax Bands etc) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2018 and comes into force on 25 January 2019.
(2) This Order has effect in relation to land transactions in relation to which the effective date is on or after 25 January 2019.
(3) In this Order, “the Order” means the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Tax Rates and Tax Bands) (Scotland) Order 2015.
(4) In this Order, “the Act” means the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Scotland) Act 2013.
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Table B (non-residential) of the schedule of the Order is amended as follows—
(a) in respect of the first tax band in column 2 for “£350,000” substitute “£250,000”,
(b) in respect of the second tax band in column 2 for “£350,000” substitute “£250,000”,
(c) in respect of the first tax band in column 3 for “3%” substitute “1%”, and
(d) in respect of the second tax band in column 3 for “4.5%” substitute “5%”.
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Paragraph 4(2) of schedule 2A (additional amount: transactions relating to second homes etc.) of the Act is amended by substituting “4%” for 3%.
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This Order does not have effect in relation to any land transaction in relation to which the effective date is on or after 25 January 2019 if contracts for the land transaction have been entered into prior to 12 December 2018.
KATE FORBES
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
12th December 2018