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The employee of a bank has a mortgage from his employer to assist in the purchase of buy-to-let properties, but P11D forms show that a large benefit in kind has accrued. Can this be set against the rental liability?

I have owned a couple of buy-to-let properties for five years and took out a mortgage that varied with the Bank of England base rate just before the base rate was reduced to 0.5%.

As an employee of a UK bank having lost on shares held in employee share ownership trusts I felt relieved that my investments were diversified.

My employer has now sent me P11D returns for two years which show a huge benefit in kind on the difference between HMRC’s official rate of interest and the rate that I paid for 2008/09 and 2009/10.

I initially thought that the benefit in tax charge was a ‘tax nothing’ as far as this relates to deduction against my buy-to-let income. I presume that I can claim a deduction for the interest that I pay to my employer against the rental income?

However I then had second...

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