Osborne faces call to overhaul stamp duty The Chancellor is facing calls to overhaul stamp duty amid claims that revenues will rise to £15bn and a warning that it is punishing aspirational Britain. The TaxPayers Alliance figures claim that receipts will rise in real terms from £9bn this year to £15bn in five years time, an increase of 73%. A 3% rate on properties worth £250,000 or more was introduced in 2000. According to Savills, if stamp duty had kept pace with house-price inflation, it would now stand at £500,000. Conservative MP Henry Smith said that he wanted to see thresholds increase “significantly” to help families trying to buy a house. He said: Many average home buyers are now finding themselves subject to quite significant stamp duty rates. Meanwhile, the EY ITEM club says in its pre-Budget briefing today that there is a strong argument for indexing the thresholds to rise in line with inflation or house prices.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 11:40:49 +0000
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