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Improving the collection of Land Transaction Tax

Land Transaction Tax (LTT) replaced stamp duty in Wales from April 2018. It’s a tax that provides income to support public services, so it’s important that every part of the LTT process is both quick and accurate.

Using GeoPlace’s bureau address data matching service, the Welsh Revenue Authority (WRA) matched almost all of its existing address data to the authoritative UPRNs, filling in the blanks where necessary. This led to an increase in correctly identifying UPRN referenced addresses. WRA now have increased confidence in the UPRNs and the ability to check data for property level matches in subsequent data analysis.

This is an instant win: it avoids the need for an expensive upgrade to a digital system that would have had trouble with incorrect addresses. GeoPlace also provided more information about property characteristics alongside the UPRNs to enable the WRA to derive more value from the process.

See the full case study at https://www.geoplace.co.uk/case-studies/using-the-uprn-to-improve-collection-of-land-transaction-tax-in-wales

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“Now we’ve got source data that’s matched and cleansed, we can run simple queries to find out building classifications – useful for checking the accuracy of a tax return. What’s more, correlations between disparate data sets such as asset lists and, for example, the register of landlords in Wales, can help verify that the right type of tax return is being submitted.”

Adam Al-Nuaimi, Head of Data Analysis at the Welsh Revenue Authority

"With the benefit of UPRN-matched addresses at the heart of its system now, WRA has already identified tax errors that should lead to recovery of unpaid taxes in excess of the cost of GeoPlace’s matching service.”

Adam Al-Nuaimi, Head of Data Analysis at the Welsh Revenue Authority

Richard Duffield

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Richard is responsible for defining and delivering the vision for insight led decision making within GeoPlace. Leading the Customer Insights team, we work with users, colleagues, and partners to ensure our strategy, roadmap and solutions meet your needs.

Richard has been integral in driving forward the quality and use of address and street data in Great Britain for the last 15 years. Bringing together broad sector knowledge, strong relationships and expertise gained by delivering national location data infrastructure projects. Richard was responsible for delivering the National Address Gazetteer, the first UK-wide spatial address dataset.

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