Land Transaction Tax guidance: finding the right Welsh Revenue Authority page
Land Transaction Tax guidance and services
The Welsh Revenue Authority’s page is a directory for LTT help. It points readers to separate pages on rates, calculations, filing, payment, higher rates, refunds and tax disputes.
- Use rates and calculator pages for an estimate.
- Check dedicated guidance for higher rates and refunds.
- Use the detailed linked page rather than relying on its title alone.
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Land Transaction Tax guidance: finding the right Welsh Revenue Authority page
Land Transaction Tax guidance: finding the right Welsh Revenue Authority page
The Welsh Revenue Authority has one page that brings together its Land Transaction Tax, or LTT, guidance and services. It is a useful starting point if you are buying property in Wales and need to find rates, a calculator, filing help or a refund page. It is not a stamp duty calculation or a set of tax rules by itself.
What this rule is about
This official page is a signpost. It sorts links by your question.
That matters because LTT questions can look alike but need different guidance. Rate questions differ from extra-home rate questions. A payment problem is different again.
Start with the question you actually have. Then use the linked page for that subject.
What the official source says
It lists LTT guidance, services and support. It covers the journey from a general overview through working out tax, filing, paying, changing a return and dealing with a disagreement.
- Read the LTT overview for a general introduction.
- Use the rates and bands page and the calculator for tax calculations.
- Use the filing, payment and return guidance pages for those separate tasks.
- Check the higher-rates pages if another home may affect the tax.
- Use the refund pages for a higher-rate refund or an overpayment refund.
- Read the non-residential and mixed-use property guide where the property is not simply a home.
- Use the multiple homes relief guide and calculator for a purchase involving multiple homes.
- Find professional registration, user-account and admin-account services in the professional section.
- Use the postcode service if you need to check whether a postcode is in Wales.
- Find separate pages for tax opinions, late payment difficulties, penalties, enquiries and disagreements with a tax decision.
What this means in practice
You do not need to read every page in the directory; begin with the part that matches your position, then move to linked subjects only when they affect you. Start there.
A buyer estimates tax via rates or calculator. Someone who thinks an extra rate may apply should use the dedicated higher-rates check as well.
- Check the postcode first if you are unsure whether the land is in Wales.
- Use the overview page when you need the basic picture.
- Use the rates and bands page before relying on a tax estimate.
- Use the calculator for the type of calculation it offers.
- Read the higher-rates material if you already own another home.
- Use the mixed-use guide if the property includes both home and business space.
- Use the refund and amendment pages if you think too much tax was paid.
- Use the enquiries and disagreement pages. Challenge its contact or decision there.
How to analyse it
Ask simple questions in order. Familiar titles can mislead you. The right page may address your situation instead.
- Is the property in Wales, or do you need the postcode service to check?
- Do you need a general explanation, a tax estimate, or help with filing or payment?
- Is the property a home, non-residential property, or mixed-use property?
- Could another home make the higher-rates guidance relevant?
- Are you buying more than one home at the same time?
- Are you trying to correct a return or recover tax already paid?
- Are you acting for an organisation that needs online filing access?
- Has a tax bill, penalty, enquiry or formal decision created a separate problem?
The key point is this: use the directory to find the detailed page. Do not treat a link title as the answer to your tax position.
Example
Illustration: Aled is buying a house and wants to know what tax may be due, so he starts with the LTT overview, the rates and bands page, and the calculator. He checks them first. He also owns another property, so he checks the separate higher-rates pages. If he later needs to submit information or pay tax, the directory has distinct filing and payment pages for those jobs.
Why this can be difficult in practice
Several links may seem relevant at once when the same purchase raises a location question, a property-type question and a higher-rates question, and that is normal. The overlap is expected.
The directory helps you find the right material, but it does not decide the answer for you. The detailed guidance on each linked page matters.
- The calculator is not a substitute for checking which type of property you are buying.
- A higher-rates question is separate from a basic rates-and-bands question.
- A refund for higher rates is not the same subject as a general overpayment refund.
- Buying multiple homes is a separate issue from simply owning another home.
- Mixed-use property needs its own guidance even if part of it is a home.
- Creating an online account is different from registering an organisation to file online.
- A tax opinion service is different from guidance on challenging a decision already made.
- Help with paying late is separate from guidance on penalties for filing or paying late.
Key takeaways
- The official page is a directory, not a complete statement of the tax rules.
- Choose the linked page that matches your actual question.
- Check separate guidance where higher rates, refunds, mixed use or multiple homes may matter.
Technical analysis
For advisers, and for anyone who wants to check the law behind this page. You do not need this section to understand the guidance above.
Official guidance
The pages below are the Welsh Revenue Authority’s guidance. Guidance is not law. It sets out how the Welsh Revenue Authority reads the legislation, and it is not binding on you, on a tribunal or on a court. Where guidance and the legislation differ, the legislation wins. the Welsh Revenue Authority can also change or withdraw guidance, and it may not cover your facts.
Explore this with an AI
Readers often want to test their own situation. Copy the prompt below into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. It hands the model the actual legislation for this page rather than letting it answer from memory, and tells it to be explicit about what is uncertain. What comes back is information, not advice – check it against the links above.
I am researching Land Transaction Tax (LTT), the tax on property in Wales. It replaced Stamp Duty Land Tax in Wales on 1 April 2018, and SDLT does not apply in Wales. MY QUESTION Land Transaction Tax guidance: finding the right Welsh Revenue Authority page [Replace this with your own situation: what you are buying, the price, the dates, who the buyer is, and what you plan to do with the property.] Guidance page from the Welsh Revenue Authority on this topic (guidance, not law): https://www.gov.wales/land-transaction-tax HOW I WANT YOU TO ANSWER 1. Work from the legislation above. Read it before answering. Guidance from the Welsh Revenue Authority is its view of the law, not the law, and does not bind a tribunal or a court. 2. Tell me what the rule actually requires, in plain English. 3. Tell me which facts decide the answer, and which facts would change it. 4. Tell me what evidence I would need to support the position. 5. Be explicit about anything unsettled or fact-sensitive. Do not guess. 6. Your training data has a cutoff and SDLT rates and reliefs change at fiscal events. Say so if you are not sure the law is current. Do not give me a conclusion you cannot support from the provisions above.
Legislation links show the Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Act 2017 as it stood on 2025-11-17. The law may have changed since, and the rules that apply are those in force on the date of your transaction. The official guidance this page is based on is here.
This page was last updated on 3 September 2026
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