Housing and Planning

The cut to stamp duty is welcome, but why isn’t it permanent?


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Professor Len Shackleton writes for 1828

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Christopher Snowdon writes for The Spectator

Tax and Fiscal Policy

Syed Kamall quoted in the FT Adviser

FT Adviser reports that mortgage advisers are calling for the stamp duty holiday to be made permanent, amid predictions of a drop in activity when the policy ends.

Previous comment from IEA Academic and  Research Director Professor Syed Kamall was included in the write-up: “The cut to stamp duty is welcome but why isn’t it permanent? It is a destructive, regressive tax that clogs up the housing market and limits labour mobility.”

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