Shocked Chancellor orders landlord tax scrutiny

My accountant and the Inland Revenue are happy with it.

I agree with you a 100%

I would also add that if landlords are paying a mortgage or a loan they are also providing proffit to the bank so the money invested in buy to let is making a lot of other business to grow.

The property will need money invested to be let out. e.g. gas certificates, EPC's, electrical test, repairs, white goods, furniture, etc

One thing the government should look at is to abolish the freehold system so people buying flats own the land too.  Or change the law so people can buy the land without having to pay such a high costs for enfranchisement.  It is not fair that people buy a long term rental agreement and the landlord still owns the land.  Most of the cases the landlord is a foreign company based in the BVV.  They collect the ground rent from all these properties (millions of pounds) that go abroad so the people bought the property, they don't own it and have to buy a new lease again when the period expires.  Also, people sometimes buy property as a way of income for retirement but they don't realised is not their property but just a long letting agreement that if it does not increase in value won't produce the expected result.
This medieval system makes people poorer after they have paid all their live for a property that does not belong to them.

The property in question was an existing buy-to-let that I purchased that had been very badly maintained.
I bought no new bathroom or kitchen nor did I build an extension.
Neverthess less the preparation for rental costs thousands including maintenance on a boiler that failed after I bought the property, threadbare carpets replaced, fixing the leaking bath & replacing worn out taps that caused damage to the lounge ceiling below, painting throughout etc etc.
If I had not done this I would have only got "No-hopers" as tenants.
The property had been previously rented out by the last landlord for years with no maintenance done.
I have a second property which is more extreme and will need a new kitchen & bathroom before tenants can move in.
From this blog it appears that some landlords have successfully claimed all the above as maintenance whilst others have not tried to claim due to the advice that they have seen.
The reference book, "Understanding & Paying Less Proprty Tax For Dummies" by Steve Sims is repeatedly quite clear that the above expenses are maintenance and as such, can be claimed against income tax providing there is no additional functionality (adding a bidet for example) or excessive quality improvement (extemely expensive carpets or wallpaper for example).
Additionally the author goes on to give examples of how this maintenance sourced loss can be carried forward for some years if necessary.
I'd appreciate anyone else's thoughts on the re-renting of an existing buy-to-let by a new landlord.

True.

The word “Fairness” is stuck on every act of income redistribution like a supermarket price label. Those who question the recipients’ needs are branded “callous”.