Buying a home unfortunately means coming face to face with stamp duty, one of Britain’s most hated taxes. What you pay depends on the price of the property you’re buying, and what kind of property ...

Stamp duty is a tax paid by most home buyers in England and Northern Ireland, with Scotland and Wales having similar levies, but its future has been the subject of much speculation. The Institute for ...

For years, academic economists have argued that council tax and stamp duty are deeply flawed. Politicians from all corners, as well as various thinktanks, also seem to agree. Back in 1976, the UK even ...

Explore how Central London's £150,000 stamp duty problem is reshaping the prime market and affecting property buyers.

Rachel Reeves’s tax raid on homebuyers has backfired after a fall in stamp duty receipts. Homebuyers paid £4.3bn in stamp ...