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Renewed calls are being made for an “urgent review” of stamp duty as research shows rising house prices mean first-time buyers...

Rising house prices boosted HMRC’s coffers during the previous tax year. Analysts suggest the booming housing market has meant HMRC has attracted...

Figures just released by HM Revenue & Customs show the Treasury enjoying a bumper year for stamp duty, with record receipts...

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

If you’re worried the stamp duty holiday is denying the Treasury of much-needed income, think again. Stamp duty receipts soared to £1,196...

Stamp Duty receipts for the year to the end of February fell just six per cent despite the high profile SDLT...

The stamp duty holiday should be extended to include properties that have exchanged but have yet to complete, a leading accountancy...

Figures just released from HM Revenue & Customs show just how much stamp duty buyers pay, at least before the current holiday...

Zoopla’s head of research says a stamp duty holiday could encourage more home owners to move which in turn could help...

The right wing political magazine that Boris Johnson used to edit has called on him to cut stamp duty. The Spectator says...

Data from HM Revenue & Customs shows tax receipts from stamp duty fell a further 5.2 per cent between 2018 and...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been urged to go further with property tax reform and not just stop at reducing stamp...

A new analysis of stamp duty suggests that a cut of around a third in SDLT could produce a 40 per...

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...

With somewhere in the region of 1.2 million property sales transactions being completed each year, and 16,500 estate agents actively vying...

A new and comprehensive analysis of the housing market shows a jaw-dropping collapse in stamp duty revenue going to the Treasury...

New figures from HM Revenue and Customs suggest that stamp duty receipts have fallen by no less than £1 billion. The drop...

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

Figures released by HMRC over the weekend show another huge rise in stamp duty going to the Treasury - and that’s...

An analysis of HMRC stamp duty statistics for the second quarter of this year suggest that receipts are down 13.8 per...

Labour says stamp duty receipts and other tax income from properties in the capital should go to the Mayor, Sadiq Kahn,...

If the government slashed stamp duty for the country’s most expensive properties the entire housing market would benefit, an estate agency...

An estate agent and a building society have both advocated radical moves to reform stamp duty - and want Chancellor Phillip...

Despite dire warnings from some estate agents that stamp duty receipts for the government would plummet in London, it now appears...

The Treasury has admitted that stamp duty ‘take’ is expected to soar from £11.2 billion this year to £17.8 billion in...