Article: Bay home sales halve in a year

Article: FED: States reap $11.9 billion from stamp duty
AAP General News (Australia);  August 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ......17,415 or five per cent. Economists regard stamp duty as one of the most...says the real rate of stamp duty isn't the three per cent-plus paid in NSW or...prices caused a 65 per cent increase in the amount of stamp duty payable on a median-pric...

Article: Stamp duty really is the ultimate stealth tax
The Scotsman;  March 16, 2001 ;     700+ words ......been argued that stamp duty is the ultimate...about five per cent of net Inland Revenue...last year - when stamp duty rose from 2.5 per cent to three per cent...the payment of stamp duty on property purchases...duty of 0.5 per cent, rather than four...

Article: NSW: Opposition steps up pressure over stamp duty
AAP General News (Australia);  October 26, 2003 ;     432 words ......pressure over stamp duty By Alex Wilson...bill to reduce stamp duty by 10 per cent, Opposition Leader...calculating the stamp duty on a house and...the 75 largest stamp duty increases over...largest increases in stamp duty in the last ...

Article: NSW: All you ever wanted to know about stamp duty
AAP General News (Australia);  June 27, 2003 ;     700+ words ......by nearly 25 per cent in the past year...things like raising stamp duty rates. It can just...Brisbane (2.92 per cent) and Canberra (3.06 per cent). NSW relies more heavily on stamp duty from property sales...of state revenue, stamp duty on property sales in NSW ...

Article: Stamp duty of properties revised
New Straits Times;  October 28, 2000 ;     199 words ......properties. Presently, stamp duty for instruments...property is one per cent for the first RM100...paying a flat rate stamp duty of three per cent. Presently a purchaser...as of next year, stamp duty for the property...fall of 17 per cent. Purchasers of...

Article: Stamp duty is costing us dear; If the government is serious about attracting first-time buyers to the housing market, it should rethink the rules on stamp duty.(Brief Article)
Financial Adviser;  October 2, 2002 ;     569 words ......to the banding of stamp duty. If you are a 40 per cent income taxpayer...significant. At 4 per cent on GBP750,000 I pay GBP30,000 in stamp duty. If I take into account...GBP500,000 and 4 per cent over GBP500,000 and pay stamp duty in a similar way...

Article: Govt to reduce stamp duty on share transfers.
PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.;  March 25, 2008 ;     364 words ......Consequently, the stamp duty on transfer of capital...will be .002 per cent from existing .01 per cent each while on delivery transactions the stamp duty will remain at the...level of .01 per cent, Walia said. Necessary...reduction in the stamp duty. Stamp ...

Article: NSW: No cuts to stamp duty says NSW government
AAP General News (Australia);  June 15, 2003 ;     565 words ......price of $420,000 and stamp duty of $14,390 - a percentage rise of 980.33 per cent since the 1995 figure...leading to a drop in stamp duty of almost 18 per cent; and Uralla, in the...leading to a 4.5 per cent drop in stamp duty. In the last financial...

Article: Stamp duty 'three times higher in the south'
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  December 31, 2007 ;     434 words ......paid only 21 per cent extra tax. The report...that the amount of stamp duty paid by people in...approximately 25 per cent of average annual...half at ten per cent. Stamp duty is currently charged at one per cent of the sale price...as the burden of stamp ...

Article: Stamp duty rise targets most expensive homes PROPERTY Budget March 98
The Scotsman;  March 18, 1998 ;     670 words ......decision to increase top rate stamp duty by 50 per cent was intended to dampen...able to take the rise in stamp duty to 3 per cent "on the nose". He added: "If you consider that stamp duty in Ireland is 9 per cent on sales over GBP 180,000...

Article: Homebuyers are getting licked by stamp duty In 10 years house prices have soared yet property tax thresholds have stayed the same. Now one lender is calling for bands to be adjusted in line with inflation, writes Myra Butterworth
The Sunday Telegraph London;  February 24, 2008 ;     556 words ......homebuyer paid a stamp duty bill of pounds 1...equivalent to 7 per cent of average annual...house in 2002 paid stamp duty of pounds 1,211, just 5 per cent of average earnings...six homebuyers paid stamp duty of 1 per cent or less. More than...

Article: Sorry, we're off duty As high levels of stamp duty deter buyers, Christopher Browne reveals the tricks used by homeowners to ensure they clinch their sale
The Sunday Telegraph London;  May 11, 2003 ;     700+ words ......selling point is stamp duty - or lack of it...000, or four per cent, its new buyer...to slash the stamp duty on their homes...one to three per cent on pounds 250...only had to pay stamp duty of pounds 2,500 or 1 per cent instead of the...

Article: Cost of moving leaps sky-high ; Stamp duty takes most of the extra cost and contributes to the South West's housing shortfall
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  November 6, 2007 ;     383 words ......soared by 280 per cent over the past 10...to new research. Stamp duty now accounts for...carries nearly 17 per cent of the country's stamp duty burden despite only...home to eight per cent of the population. "The total stamp duty collected by the...

Article: Artful tax dodges The latest development incentive is a scheme that enables homebuyers to avoid exorbitant stamp duty
Evening Standard - London;  May 5, 1999 ;     600 words ......the blow of rising stamp duty. Estate agents claim the new rates of stamp duty, introduced in the...properties into the higher stamp duty bands -2.5 per cent on purchases between...escape higher rate stamp duty. It works like this...still offering to pay ...