Heated debate in Commons over scrapping EPC targets for landlords

They still getting this wrong, It's tenants that's gonna' end up paying for this. No more cheap rents.
My tenants will be paying £3000 per year more each tenant to then bring them up to normal rents which may then cover this.

There is an issue of practicality - do tenants really want their floors ripped up so insulation can be inserted between the joists? Or their rooms made smaller because insulation is fixed to the external walls? And where will they live while this disruptive work is carried out?
It's high time MPs forgot about soundbites and concentrated on the practicalities!

1st off the "Net Zero" policy is completely bonkers based on lies, there is NO Climate Emergency.

2nd it won't cost Renters anything "extra" as they are already paying the out of control high energy costs - Price Cap my ar#e!

3rd in what universe does spending £15k to save £300/year make any financial sense? Payback in 50 years!

Every time we see the word 'landlord' we need to change it to read 'landlord and tenant '. There can be no landlord with tenant and what affects the landlord will affect the tenant. So as they hammer the landlord, they also hammer the tenant.

What these politians fail to let you know, that they have sat back and listened to prs for once, 100 of thousandsoflandlordsare and have left the industry because of this systematic penalising landlords via council reg ,licences taxes and now the final straw so called Green dream of reaching net zero. I am one of those landlords who was in the process of selling up ,but the change in epc regs l have put on gold saving 15 people being homeless through no fault of there's, when l asked the tennants do you want your home brought to a epc c . l got the reply WHATS A EPC.

Milliband is wrong again landlords will still insulate their properties via eco4 system where possible, what they won't do is be held to ransome at a cost of 10.to 20 k satisfy some political agenda , you want it doing you pay all costs simple try and pass the bill to landlords then be prepared for mass homelessness it simple Mr Milliband.

With regard to the Hon. lady’s policy on income tax relief, I suggest that is not necessarily the best response, because a lot of landlords are pensioners and will not necessarily pay income tax.”

Is this person totally bonkers? Do they not realise pensions count towards taxable income and taxable rental profits are pretty much based on turnover? Pensioner landlords may be basic rate tax payers but very few will be non tax payers.
While the majority of landlords may only own one or two properties around half of PRS properties are owned by portfolio landlords who are mainly higher rate tax payers. Expecting us to pay for eco upgrades after paying 40% of our turnover as income tax and the extra Section 24 tax (which in some cases means paying tax on a loss) is totally ridiculous.
I'm all for sensible energy saving measures but they have to be financially viable. Having laws in place that cause mass evictions and much higher rents really isn't helpful.

'With regard to the Hon. lady’s policy on income tax relief, I suggest that is not necessarily the best response, because a lot of landlords are pensioners and will not necessarily pay income tax.”
Given the state pension is over £10000 I struggle to see how a pensioner LL would not pay at least some income tax?

i think i am on the same page as JIM K. if LL's cannot offset energy costs against rental income, (and assuming LLs will NOT receive a 100% Govt. Grant ) then it can only be offset against CGT. i dont know the % of LLs who do and do not pay income tax, but surely that is better than waiting to offset against CGT, as it might be many years before the LL sells that property to be able to offset the costs. i am not a tax advisor, but if it were offsetable against income tax, in the year energy improvements made, and the LL made a loss in that year because of the legally required upgrade, can that loss be carried forwards to future tax years and offsetable against future profits?

I speak to tenants quite regularly who are entitled to free insulation or free heating upgrades due to low income or vulnerability but more often than not they are not interested or can not be bothered to prove evidence of entitlement.
Sometimes it like banging your head against a brick wall.