Land Transaction Tax statistics: August 2020

Data includes the number of land and property transactions, tax due and value of property taxed.

Organisation:

Welsh Revenue Authority

Our monthly releases are published as data tables on this page and datasets on the StatsWales website.

They include monthly updates on the number of:

reported notifiable transactions and tax due
reported notifiable transactions by type
transactions and tax due by tax band
refunds for higher rates residential transactions

Please note:

monthly statistics are data-only updates with no commentary
quarterly statistics include the latest statistical commentary
annual statistics present a greater level of detail, including analysis within Wales and analysis using the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation

Monthly, quarterly and annual statistics can be found on the Land Transaction Tax series page.

LTT rate change and impact of coronavirus (COVID-19)

Figures for August 2020 include the period from 27 July 2020 when the tax rate changed for main rate residential transactions (until 31 March 2021).

In our quarterly release for April to June 2020, we presented the weekly number of transactions submitted to the Welsh Revenue Authority. On this page, we have updated the chart presented in that release (up to the week beginning 12 September).

Please see the quarterly release for April to June 2020 for commentary on and explanation of this chart.

The chart shows the number of residential and non-residential transactions submitted to the WRA each week from January to September, in 2019 and 2020. Please note that this chart includes a small number of transactions effective in September 2020.

Data

Datasets and interactive tools