TC09626 - [2025] UKFTT 01067 (TC)
First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber)

TC09626 - [2025] UKFTT 01067 (TC)

Fecha: 12-Jun-2025

Privacy and security at the front of the house

Privacy and security at the front of the house

64.

HMRC also argued that the fact that the occupant of and visitors to the Annexe would use the driveway and communal porch which impacts on the security and privacy of the Main House.

65.

The Appellants pointed out that the access route to the porch for occupiers of the Annexe did not require them to pass the windows for the Main House.

66.

In our view the common driveway must impact on the privacy of both the Annexe and the Main House. However, that is no different from properties that abut public roads and pavements, where the passing public can see into the properties.