Exclusive: Land Registry documents show deputy prime minister used high street company for £800,000 transaction
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Angela Rayner used a small, high-street conveyancing firm for the purchase of the £800,000 Hove flat at the centre of a damaging tax row, the Guardian has learned.
The deputy prime minister employed Verrico & Associates, a family firm based in Herne Bay, Kent, to complete the transaction, according to legal documents seen by the Guardian.
Rayner has said she asked for legal advice before buying the flat in Hove, East Sussex, based on which she mistakenly paid the lower rate of stamp duty, believed to be about £30,000. She said on Wednesday, however, that she had subsequently taken advice from a senior barrister, which made her realise she had underpaid.
