Home buyers caught in stamp duty net
Story date: 2007-10-16 05:59:00
Added on: 2007-10-16 23:00:52
Daily Telegraph - Within months of taking over the Treasury, Mr Brown introduced two higher rates ... Martin Ellis, the chief economist at Halifax, the country's largest mortgage lender ... The Treasury pointed out that it doubled the lowest threshold from £60,000 to ...
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