I recently acted for a management company that had to acquire the freehold of a block back from the Crown as bona vacantia. The transferor was the Queen.

On completing the SDLT1 Form, I filled in the vendor's address as not applicable because the Queen was not conveying in her personal capacity. Even so, the Inland Revenue raised an SDLT8 form insisting on the address, which I then had to give as Buckingham Palace, The Mall, London SW1A 1AA.


Surely this proves that the SDLT office is devoid of any sense.


James Carter, Martin Tolhurst Partnership, Gravesend, Kent