The As­so­ci­a­tion of Re­al Es­tate Agents (AREA) is wel­com­ing the Board of In­land Rev­enue’s (BIR) lat­est an­nounce­ment that down­load­able Land­lord Busi­ness Reg­is­tra­tion Forms will be avail­able from March 1, 2026, as well as the ex­ten­sion of the reg­is­tra­tion dead­line to May 30, 2026.

The BIR con­firmed this week that ad­min­is­tra­tive prepa­ra­tions are well un­der­way to sup­port land­lords seek­ing to be­come com­pli­ant ahead of the roll-out of the land­lord busi­ness sur­charge, a new tax mea­sure in­tro­duced in the bud­get.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo met with BIR of­fi­cials this week as part of on­go­ing dis­cus­sions sur­round­ing the im­ple­men­ta­tion of the sur­charge.