Stamp duty holiday extension calculator: How much tax would you pay and what could you save? By Simon Lambert For This Is Money Published: 14:52 GMT, 3 March 2021 | Updated: 16:15 GMT, 3 March 2021 The stamp duty holiday deadline will be extended from 31 March to 30 June 2021, the Chancellor said today … Read more
Stamp duty holiday extension calculator: How much tax would you pay and what could you save? By Simon Lambert For This Is Money Published: 14:52 GMT, 3 March 2021 | Updated: 14:52 GMT, 3 March 2021 The stamp duty holiday deadline will be extended from 31 March to 30 June 2021, the Chancellor said today … Read more
Rishi Sunak has confirmed that fuel duty will be frozen for a tenth consecutive year. The decision in today’s Budget means the tax paid on petrol and diesel will remain at 57.95p-a-litre, as has been the case since 2011. As a result, the tax currently accounts for around 47 per cent of what drivers pay … Read more
The Tory civil war over tax is raging today as Boris Johnson hinted fuel duty will be frozen in tomorrow’s Budget – but Lord Hague warned that taxes will have to rise to heal the public finances. The PM signalled that Rishi Sunak will avoid raising the levy on fuel as he insisted the economic … Read more
Line Of Duty creator Jed Mercurio excited fans when he shared the first clue about the plot of season six to Twitter. Uploading a snap of a packet of the Australian chocolate biscuits TimTams with the caption ‘#LineofDuty Series 6 Plot Clue No. 1’, fans began to ferociously speculate as to what it might mean. But … Read more
With Rishi Sunak reportedly set to extend the stamp duty holiday until the end of June in his Spring budget next week, Britain’s housing market appears to have been given yet another reprieve. It’s good news for buyers who are part-way through a drawn-out sale plagued by delays due to the latest lockdown – but … Read more
Online house hunting reached a new record this month, overtaking the previous one set last summer. Rightmove said there were 8.5 million visits to its website on Wednesday February 17, higher than the previous record on July 8. It comes amid widespread speculation that the Chancellor will extend the stamp duty holiday by three months … Read more
As many as 234,000 buyers who’ve had a property sale agreed could save thousands of pounds if the Chancellor’s rumoured three-month stamp duty holiday extension goes ahead. The total amount saved in stamp duty charges if the extension is given the green light in the Budget next week could top £984million, according to online property … Read more
We have just agreed the sale of our home and the purchase of a new one costing £600,000, and there is no chain beyond these two transactions. We had been working on the basis that there was no way we would benefit from the stamp duty holiday, but I have now read that it could … Read more
Boris Johnson reveals Rishi Sunak is considering lower alcohol duty for pubs than supermarkets as Keir Starmer urges the PM to rule out tax rises ahead of next week’s Budget Tory MPs have urged Boris Johnson to reduce alcohol duty imposed on pubs They want beer duty to be set at a lower rate for … Read more