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An industry trade body wants the government to scrap the three per cent stamp duty surcharge on additional homes - and...

A stamp duty surcharge which has been labelled ‘forgotten’ because of its low profile has nonetheless bagged £45m for HM Treasury in...

The threshold at which Scotland’s Land and Buildings Transaction Tax is paid by purchasers is to be raised from £145,000 to...

The Bank of England has announced an emergency cut in the base interest rate to shore up the economy during the Coronavirus...

Increasing numbers of reports suggest that the government will use next week’s Budget to confirm a three per cent stamp duty...

Conservative Party leadership contender Boris Johnson has expressed an interest in switching the stamp duty burden from buyers to sellers. Until now Johnson’s comments on...

Over the last few years, there have a number of changes to the stamp duty land tax (SDLT) regime, which have...

If former Chancellor George Osborne thought his 2014 stamp duty reform would produce more income for the government, it appears he...

Data from the buying agency Black Brick reveals just how big an impact has been made by the additional homes stamp...

The Society of Licensed Conveyancers has become the latest body to call for the scrapping of stamp duty to give the...