Article: Scrap stamp duty for new buyers.(Features)

Article: Kirstie: Scrap stamp duty for first-time ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  May 9, 2008 ;     379 words ... ... presenter Kirstie Allsopp has backed a campaign to scrap stamp duty for first-time buyers. The host of Location, Location ... The Conservatives are calling on the Government to scrap stamp duty for all first-time buyers on properties below pounds250 ...

Article: Kirstie urging no stamp duty ; Location, Location, ...
Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  May 9, 2008 ;     422 words ... ... Broadhembury, near Honiton, has backed a campaign to scrap stamp duty for first-time buyers. The property expert joined ... The Conservatives are calling on the Government to scrap stamp duty for all first-time buyers on properties below pounds250 ...

Article: Stamp duty suspension 'good news' for buyers ; ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  August 6, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... coup under Government plans to scrap stamp duty. The temporary measure, said ... Devon and Cornwall in 2006-07, stamp duty on homes raised pounds185 million ... generated for the Exchequer from stamp duty has rocketed from pounds30 million ...

Article: Move to scrap stamp duty welcomed
The Independent - London;  October 6, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... to 1m, and then the pledge to remove stamp duty for first-time buyers who purchase ... 000. While the decision to abolish stamp duty for first-timers didn't grab the ... has been surpassing the threshold for stamp duty - known as fiscal drag - leaving more ...

Article: Howard pledges to scrap stamp duty for most
The Northern Echo;  April 22, 2005 ;     491 words ...STAMP duty would be scrapped for the majority of ... Howard said the Tories would raise the stamp duty threshold from 120,000 to 250,000 ... Democrat Treasury spokesman, dismissed the stamp duty move as an "uncosted bribe" based on ...

Article: Taking Stock: Will Brown scrap stamp duty on ...
Scotland on Sunday;  September 29, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... corporate lobbyists to call for an end to stamp duty on shares. I suspect many who marched ... prices. The City alliance argues that stamp duty costs us all GBP 100 a year on our pension ... taxation to untested economic theories. Stamp duty was introduced in 1694, and I suspect ...

Article: Tories vow to scrap stamp duty on shares to ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  August 27, 2006 ;     422 words ... ... Gordon Brown by unveiling plans to abolish stamp duty on shares. Outlining the party's first ... why I am particularly keen to look at stamp duty on shares.'' His comments follow calls ... reform. The Tories say abolition of stamp duty on shares would increase the average ...