The Good-Bye Budget Brown sees himself off with surprise cuts in income and company tax, higher threshold for inheritance tax and capital gains, penalty tax on high-fuel vehicles, 'zero-carbon' homes will be exempt stamp duty BBC Main points at a glance 22.03.07 BBC, LegalDay Blog, Budget 2007, Capital Gains Tax, Company Tax, Environment Law, Income Tax, Inheritance Tax, Pensions, UK Tax

Stamp Duty HMRC is to repay £3m raked in as illegal interest charges on overdue Stamp Duty Land Tax, 30k transactions thought to be affected 07.09.05 Telegraph, Property Law Links, UK Tax Links

SDLT Lawyers are being tangled up in requisitions for clarification, errors are often due to poor Revenue technology, fear of giving false impression to clients 01.04.05 Butterworths

Stamp Duty Brown likely to bow to pressure and raise threshold on stamp duty on residential property, concern in Treasury that housing market cooling too far 15.03.05 Guardian, Budget 2005 Links

Stamp Duty Trade groups cry out against imposition of major rise in stamp duty, Treasury says it makes taxes 21.10.03 Telegraph

Stamp Duty Treasury will this week release new rules on stamp duty on business leases, rise will be large, but focused on larger value properties 20.10.03 Telegraph

Stamp Duty Revenue is planning crack down on stamp duty avoidance, home-sellers pricing houses just below £250k limit, then charging excessively for fittings 15.10.03 BBC, Property Links

Property Tax Labour think tank pushing for higher stamp duty, more council tax, lower threshold for inheritance tax as way to end 'housing poverty' 28.08.03 Times, Property Links

Stamp Duty Revenue publishes 60 pages of complex legislation to 'modernise' stamp duty 04.12.02 Financial Director

SDLT Certificates Online Practitioners who submit stamp duty land tax (SDLT) returns electronically now get their certificates (SDLT5) electronically by return, without having to wait for paper copies to be sent by post 06.02.07 HM Revenue & Customs

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