Brits have called for the removal of stamp duty on UK shares in order to incentivise them to allocate capital into the London ...

New draft UK legislation has been published today proposing to remove the 1.5% stamp tax charge on issues, and certain transfers, of securities to depositary receipt systems and clearance services (or ...

If this is an innocent mistake, we would be forgiven for asking why it is that government never seems to accidentally lower anybody’s taxes ...

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An anomaly in the Renters’ Rights Act that would otherwise leave hundreds of thousands of private tenants having to pay stamp duty in the coming years.

The UK housing market has experienced a significant surge in activity in 2025, driven largely by changes to stamp duty thresholds, according to a recent update from UK Finance. Separately, the ...

Stamp duty is a tax applied to single property purchases across the United Kingdom. The buyer pays the tax whether they are buying the property outright or with a mortgage and the rate they pay ...

The U.K.’s luxury housing market is still absorbing the impact of a shock move by the government last month to hike stamp duty for property owners buying second, or additional, homes and buy-to-let ...

Homebuyers appear to be adjusting to higher property purchase costs after the latest Nationwide House Price Index revealed a slowdown in house price growth. Annual house price growth slowed in April ...