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I always like to see clients!! Some when they come, some when they go!!

A few months ago a former client called me. They had been difficult and stroppy from the start. Well they had taken a lease of a pub, sadly the venture had not prospered and they closed after 7 months. I hadn't needed the SDLT money upfront as there was no mortgagee. Appropriate warnings issued. In triplicate. That was 6 years ago. HMRC has finally caught up with them and is demanding £££. So this former client calls me and asks me to 'send a fax' to HMRC to confirm that in filling in and submitting the SDLT1, I made a mistake, as their occupation was only ever on a trial basis... and when I flatly refused, this former client told me 'we will take this further, you haven't heard the last of this'.

Counsel, you are welcome to them.

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