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Land Transaction Tax Calculator: Wales

Work out stamp duty or transfer tax on a home, with first-time buyer relief and second-home and foreign buyer surcharges, by country, state or province.

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Land Transaction Tax to pay

£3,900.00

1.34% of £290,000.00 in Wales

Where you are buying

Each country, and in five of them each state, province or nation, sets its own tax.

Each nation sets its own rates and reliefs here.

The purchase
£
About you
A second home or a buy-to-let, or a home you will not live in.
Land Transaction Tax: how it was worked out

Main residential rates since 10 October 2022; a buyer who keeps another home pays the higher residential rates, in force since 11 December 2024, instead. Wales has no first-time buyer relief.

  • 0% of £225,000.00£0.00
  • 6% of £65,000.00 from £225,000.00£3,900.00

  • Effective rate

    1.34%

    of the £290,000.00 price

  • A standard buyer would pay

    £3,900.00

    a resident buying a home to live in

  • Price plus tax

    £293,900.00

    before legal and other fees

Wales rates. An estimate, not financial advice, providers may calculate differently.

How the bill is made up

Each charge on a £290,000.00 purchase in Wales
ChargeTo pay
Land Transaction Tax£3,900.00
Land Transaction Tax at other prices
  • You

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The rules for Wales

What the calculator above works from, read from the datasets listed under Data sources. Where a table gives the basis, “set by law” marks a figure fixed by statute or by the body that charges it, and a typical figure is a market convention the calculator opens on, which you can change.

Land Transaction Tax in Wales, for buyers who will live in it
FromUp toRatePlus
£0£225,0000%-
£225,000£400,0006%-
£400,000£750,0007.5%-
£750,000£1,500,00010%-
£1,500,000-12%-
Reliefs, surcharges and other charges in Wales
RuleApplies toEffectBasis
Higher residential ratesBuyers of an additional homeOwn scaleSet by law

No first-time buyer relief, and a separate table for second homes

Wales has charged its own Land Transaction Tax since April 2018, collected by the Welsh Revenue Authority. Its nil band is the most generous in Britain at 225,000, which is why Wales offers no separate relief for first-time buyers: everyone buying a home to live in gets the same scale, 6% from 225,000, 7.5% from 400,000, 10% from 750,000 and 12% above 1,500,000.

A buyer who will own more than one home pays the higher residential rates instead, a table of its own rather than a surcharge on the main one. Since 11 December 2024 it starts at 5% on the first 180,000 and rises to 17% above 1,500,000, so a 260,000 second home pays 15,950 where a main home pays 2,100. If you are replacing your main residence and sell the old one within three years, the difference can be reclaimed.

The return and the tax are due within 30 days of the effective date.

For how the calculation works, the formula behind it and what it leaves out, see the full guide. For help interpreting a result or comparing it with a quote or statement, read the questions and answers.

Data sources

UK property transfer taxes: SDLT, LBTT and LTTGOV.UKWithin its effective period

Every document each dataset was read from, its notes and how the figures were checked are listed in the guide's data sources.

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