tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post550693194522967811..comments2024-03-05T10:52:24.691+00:00Comments on Mark Wadsworth: "Stamp duty thresholds have saved home buyers £260m since 2012"Mark Wadsworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-60009576214937308102014-03-18T16:04:53.256+00:002014-03-18T16:04:53.256+00:00BJ, ooh, good idea.
TBH, yes, to some extent.
L,...BJ, ooh, good idea.<br /><br />TBH, yes, to some extent.<br /><br />L, that's why I rewrote the article in a more positive tone :-) <br /><br />LF, lighten up. I re-wrote the article to reverse their emphasis. SDLT is in isolation a shit tax, but it does have a few upsides, this being one of them.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-74718899480975060872014-03-18T15:51:02.615+00:002014-03-18T15:51:02.615+00:00Of course if you want to move from one property co...Of course if you want to move from one property costing £x to another costing £x stamp duty makes the process a lot more.<br />It also discourages people from trading down when the children leave home, which is surely a bad thing?<br />(If you trade down from a £400k to a £300k house assuming that it costs £5k in costs etc, stamp duty will take almost 10% of the profit)<br /><br />BTW I do agree with taxes on owning land but not on buying selling land.L fairfaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274756119129254373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-44779028273996764422014-03-18T12:13:53.619+00:002014-03-18T12:13:53.619+00:00Read the City AM article. I am strating to lose t...Read the City AM article. I am strating to lose the will to live again...Lolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04586735342675041312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-70914195790147173462014-03-18T10:52:46.618+00:002014-03-18T10:52:46.618+00:00*more expensive to the SAME figure of the addition...*more expensive to the SAME figure of the additional loanThomasBHallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998362261169422976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-57349413259758492782014-03-18T10:51:48.427+00:002014-03-18T10:51:48.427+00:00Stamp Duty also saves buyers a whole load in the f...Stamp Duty also saves buyers a whole load in the fact the don't have to borrow an additional multiple of it. If there was no SDLT, a borrower would have that much more deposit for the bank to kindly leverage up, so I'd hazard a guess that property prices would suddenly find themselves more expensive to the dame figure.ThomasBHallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998362261169422976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-88776732131774338422014-03-18T10:41:00.907+00:002014-03-18T10:41:00.907+00:00Perhaps the Government should introduce and easy p...Perhaps the Government should introduce and easy payment scheme for SDLT. Spread over say twenty years? <br /><br /><br /><br />benjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11544297406005346095noreply@blogger.com