Andy Burnham fuels fear of extra £7.5 billion property tax on London

Daniel Freeman: Here's what Andy Burnham should have announced on property tax

Daniel Freeman is Managing Editor of the Institute of Economic Affairs. It was all kicking off on tax wonk group chats across Westminster on Monday morning. The i newspaper had reported the night before that Andy Burnham’s team were ‘actively considering’ scrapping Stamp Duty and Council Tax and rolling both into a new annual property tax charged either as a fixed value of the sale price of the property (known as a proportional property tax), or…

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Andy Burnham fuels fear of extra £7.5 billion property tax on London

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