Monthly Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) statistics: July 2025
Key points
- Residential LBTT, excluding Additional Dwelling Supplement (ADS), was £52.3m in July 2025. This was 15% higher than in June 2025 (£45.5m) and 1% higher than in July 2024 (£52.0m). This was the highest ever amount of residential LBTT for a single month (July 2024 being second highest).
- Non-residential LBTT, excluding ADS, was £30.7m in July 2025. This was 72% higher than June 2025 (£17.9m) and 57% higher than July 2024 (£19.6m). Non-residential revenues are highly variable between months, due to the effect of small numbers of high value transactions.
Johanna Boyd to join Revenue Scotland as our new CEO later this year
Revenue Scotland is pleased to announce that Johanna Boyd will be joining Revenue Scotland as our new CEO later this year.
Currently the CEO of Planning Aid Scotland, Johanna brings a wealth of experience as a dual-qualified (non-practising) English barrister and Scottish solicitor, along with a proven track record in executive leadership.
Her experience includes leading high-performing organisations, driving innovation, and providing strategic direction.
Summary
Introduction
This publication covers annual statistics for Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT), going back to 2015/16. It includes information on tax declared due, numbers of tax returns, revenue foregone to reliefs, and data by local authority. Monthly LBTT statistics are also published on the Revenue Scotland website: Land and Buildings Transaction Tax Statistics | Revenue Scotland
Monthly Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) statistics: June 2025
Key points
- Residential LBTT, excluding Additional Dwelling Supplement (ADS), was £45.5m in June 2025. This was 24% higher than in May 2025 (£36.7m) and 17% higher than in June 2024 (£38.8m).
- Non-residential LBTT, excluding ADS, was £17.8m in June 2025. This was 11% higher than May 2025 (£16m) and 23% higher than June 2024 (£14.5m). Non-residential revenues are highly variable between months, due to the effect of small numbers of high value transactions.
Public appointment: Members appointed to the Revenue Scotland Board
The Minister for Public Finance announced the appointments of two new members to the Board of Revenue Scotland, Alison Macdonald and Gillian Wheeler.
Members
Alison Macdonald is a Chartered Banker with a financial services background. She has held senior leadership roles in Lloyds Banking Group, most recently as Chief Controls Officer - Insurance, Pensions & Investments.
LBTT7008 Partnership exemptions and reliefs
Exemptions and reliefs applicable to LBTT are applicable to Partnerships other than the exceptions below.
No exemption where there is no chargeable consideration
Where there is no chargeable consideration, the following are not exempt transactions:
LBTT7007 Ordinary partnership transactions
The following rules apply to land transactions entered into as buyer or on behalf of the members of a partnership other than transactions which fall within:
LBTT7006 Property investment partnerships (PIP)
Property investment partnerships (PIPs) are partnerships whose sole or main activity is investing or dealing in chargeable interests (including but is not restricted to carrying out construction operations on the land in question).
Chargeable interests include any interest which would be chargeable if it were in Scotland, but relates to land outwith Scotland. Partnerships holding such interests can fall within the definition of property investment partnership.
LBTT7005 Transfer involving leases
Where whole or part of the chargeable consideration for the transaction is rent under Parts 4 or 5, the leases schedule takes effect (Schedule 19) with the following modifications.
Transactions include:
- partnerships entering into a lease as tenant
- a partnership granting a lease to a partner
The chargeable consideration is reduced to take account of the partnership shares and interests of the partners involved in the lease if they had an interest prior to the lease agreement.