Consultation outcome

Rent a room relief

• From: HM Treasury and HM Revenue & Customs
• Published: 1 December 2017
• Last updated: 6 July 2018 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Rent a room relief: summary of responses

Ref: ISBN 978-1-912225-92-7, PU2181

PDF, 359 KB, 24 pages

Detail of outcome

The government would like to thank all those who responded to the call for evidence on rent a room relief. This document summarises those responses and sets out the policy change the government now intends to make.

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Original consultation

Summary

This call for evidence seeks to better understand the use of rent a room relief.

This consultation ran from
1 December 2017 to 11:59pm on 23 February 2018

Consultation description

Rent a room relief was first introduced in 1992 to incentivise individuals to make spare capacity in their homes available for rent. The government intended this to increase the quantity and variety of low-cost rented housing.

In the last 25 years the housing market has changed significantly: there has been an overall growth in the number of people living in the private rented sector (PRS), whilst the emergence and growth of peer to peer online marketplaces and digital platforms has made it easier to advertise rooms, putting those with spare accommodation in touch with a global network of potential lodgers.

Given the pace and scale of change in the sector, the government wants to explore whether the design of rent a room relief provides the right incentives for the rental market as it exists today.

Documents

Call for evidence – rent-a-room relief

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Published 1 December 2017
Last updated 6 July 2018 + show all updates

1. 6 July 2018

   Response document published.

2. 1 December 2017

   First published.