Article: Elegant Homes: Bid to end stamp duty.(Features)

Article: Industry slams Stamp Duty inertia.
Mortgage Strategy;  March 17, 2008 ;     607 words ... ... for failing to overhaul Stamp Duty to help first-time buyers ... included increasing the minimum Stamp Duty threshold, making first-time buyers exempt from the levy or abolishing ... Mortgage Strategy's Step Up Stamp Duty campaign has been calling ...

Article: Did chancellor go far enough in doubling stamp duty ...
Mortgage Strategy;  March 28, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... buyers can still avoid Stamp Duty by purchasing in a regeneration ... properties are exempt from Stamp Duty up to the value of ... make all first-time buyers exempt and continues to press ... investigate the impact that Stamp Duty and other taxes have ...

Article: Should paying stamp duty be responsibility of home ...
Mortgage Strategy;  July 2, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... home by doubling the Stamp Duty threshold to #120 ... garage? On average the Stamp Duty burden adds #1,500 ... s make first-time buyers exempt and place the burden ... is right to shift the Stamp Duty burden from buyers to ...

Article: Stamp duty 'must be reviewed'
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  March 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ...A call for a review of stamp duty - the tax people pay when they buy ... properties on which higher levels of stamp duty are payable. One in five homebuyers ... Wales are now over the 3 per cent stamp duty threshold of pounds250,000. Six ...

Article: Stamp duty really is the ultimate stealth tax
The Scotsman;  March 16, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... certain deprived areas - marked time on stamp duty in the recent Budget. But those ... big fish that get caught up in any stamp duty trawl. Most members of the public assume that only homeowners pay stamp duty when, in fact, it applies to all ...

Article: Stamp duty on UK land and buildings.
M2 Presswire;  April 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... 18 April 2002-UK Government: Stamp duty on UK land and buildings (C ... to tackle current avoidance of stamp duty on commercial property transactions ... launched major reform to modernise stamp duty on land and buildings in the UK ...

Article: Stamp Duty: What is the Impact of the 2002 Changes ...
Mondaq Business Briefing;  August 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... article we outline the impact of the stamp duty anti-avoidance measures in the Finance ... than [pound]10m No change except that stamp duty penalties can no longer be deferred by ... exceed [pound]10m is not subject to stamp duty. Instead stamp duty is due on the transfer ...