Philip Hammond, the UK Chancellor, has been urged to review stamp duty reforms amid claims that they have slowed the housing market and only raised half as much money as the Treasury predicted. New...
Economic uncertainty due to the Brexit vote and taxation changes appear to have had little impact on the UK’s buy-to-let market. The Bank of Ireland’s Market Index claims that more than half of landlords...
The influential TaxPayers’ Alliance has called on the Government to halve all rates of Stamp Duty immediately and eventually scrap it altogether. The recommendation also urges the immediate scrapping of the 3% surcharge on...
The Association of Residential Letting Agents has claimed that the new stamp duty surcharge on buy to let properties, coming into effect next Friday, will increase rent costs for tenants and trigger a decline...
The latest report from the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) indicates that 40% of letting agents predict that the supply of rental properties will decrease over the next five years. The findings appear...
In his autumn statement, Chancellor George Osborne has announced that buy-to-let landlords and those buying second homes will soon have to pay more in stamp duty. From April 2016, they will have to pay a...
