Stamp duty

As chancellor announces no tax to be paid on properties up to value of £250000, we explain changes across UK.

“Even if the change does persuade more people to buy, a shortage of buyers isn’t the biggest problem facing the property market. As the tax is devolved, the Scottish and Welsh governments will receive funding to allocate “as they see fit”, the Treasury said today. In Scotland it is called land and buildings transaction tax, and is not payable on the first £145,000 of a property’s value. The portion between £925,001 and £1.5m will continue to be taxed at 10%, and any property worth more than that will be subject to stamp duty rates of 12%. [Stamp duty](https://www.theguardian.com/money/stampduty) is a tax paid by homebuyers in England and Northern Ireland, based on the value of the property they are buying. Previously, the first £125,000 of a property’s value was tax free.

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This was in place for a year until 30 June last year and the threshold was then cut further to £250,000 until 30 September. - If the stamp duty cut was on all properties up to £500,000, it would mean 74% of properties in England would be exempt from stamp duty Housebuilders’ share prices spiked following reports of the cut earlier this week. - The percentage of properties that are on the market by the current different stamp duty bands are as follows: “We have to end this. - The average stamp duty that a home-mover (not a first-time buyer) pays is currently £8,258 (based on the average asking price of £365,173)

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Tax cuts to cost Treasury around £37bn in 2023-24, official figures reveal.

The UK government’s income tax rates are cut by 10p for Wales, with the Treasury sending all the money it collects in Wales to Cardiff. If no-one increased their declared taxable income in response to the change, we estimate that it would cost about £6 billion per year: hence, the government is assuming that roughly two-thirds of the mechanical reduction in revenue is recouped due to behavioural responses. It says the government thinks the tax cut for higher earners will only cost £2bn because, once it takes effect, higher earners will abandon some of the wheezes they have been using to cut their tax liability. Scotland briefly had similar powers too but, in the wake of the Scottish National party’s landslide election wins in 2011 and 2015, those dramatically improved. The government says that cutting the top rate from 45% to 40% will cost about £2 billion per year. But it also says there is a risk the tax cut could cost the exchequer a lot more. Reagan slashed taxes for the wealthy, let his budget deficit rip and heralded a golden glow of growth that allowed him to boast it was “morning again in America”. The biggest problem for Kwarteng and Liz Truss is that, in case you missed it, Britain is not America. Britain has inflation at close to 10% and to the extent it boosts demand, the mini-budget will add to inflationary pressure. Today is not automatically a day for the Labour Party to cheer. I spoke to one of Truss’s ministers who was not in the chamber for the Chancellor’s statement because they thought their face would give away their feelings. Kwasi Kwarteng, the chancellor, has claimed that the tax cuts in his mini-budget were “absolutely fair”.