Sentences with phrase «avoiding stamp duty»

This week's Budget will contain aggressive measures against those avoiding stamp duty, the chancellor said this morning.

We've already raised stamp duty on multi-million pound homes and next week publish the legislation to stop the richest avoiding stamp duty.

Labour walked on by while big companies and people from overseas avoided stamp duty on UK real estate.

Osborne said: «A major source of abuse — and one that rouses the anger of many of our citizens — is the way some people avoid the stamp duty that the rest of the population pays, including by using companies to buy expensive residential property.

Until the chancellor George Osborne's budget crackdown on Wednesday, anyone buying property held by offshore vehicles could avoid stamp duty by acquiring a company's shares rather than purchasing the property directly.

Not exact matches

While he slashed stamp duty for almost every first - time buyer (outside London) he conspicuously avoided provoking older voters; pension tax reliefs remain sacrosanct, as does the winter fuel allowance and the «triple lock» on pension increases...

We hear much about taxing the rich, yet, in this Parliament, the richest will pay more in tax than in any single year of the previous Government — more tax on capital gains, more stamp duty — they will be less able to avoid and evade tax and they will pay more when they take out their pension policies.»