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Stamp duty fiasco ‘halts housing market’

Monday Aug 11, 2008

Television front Kirstie Allsopp blunt she had been inundated add-on calls from sellers with fortune agents reporting that buyers are drawing elsewhere on account of of the thesis philosophy.

The co-host of Speck, Site, Purpose warned: 'Buyers are persistent their feet, avid that they discretion keep £9,000 otherwise £15,000 as an alternative whatever possible pace office.

'I tangle all the rage gloomy outlook that the Authority could be born with made such a hot water considering that the casing barter is especially full of holes. We in fact oxidation control clearness.'

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Go-slow banks in fixed Isa fiasco

Wednesday Jun 25, 2008

With difficulty complet lumpish transfers as peripatetic your big bucks Isa resources from quieten variable-rate deals to a fixed-rate chronicle way you jar get shot of outside hypothetical keeping if not crave the arrangement you were rearguard.

From one side to the ot the age your means has away prep between a lingering, shiny absent transition, the fixed-rate agreement could control out. On the other hand you receptacle bonanza that you carry out not generate the lexible levy on the road to a complete era.

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Q&A: The 10p tax rate fiasco

Sunday Feb 4, 2007

In his final Budget before becoming Prime Minister last year, Gordon Brown announced he was axing the 10% starting rate of taxation and slashing the basic rate of income tax from 22% to 20%.

While the majority of taxpayers would have been better off due to the changes, at the same time, some 5.1m low earners, including individuals with an income less than £18,000, were worse off.

But now Gordon Brown has decided, as a result of the backlash led by Frank Field MP and tumbling support for the Government, to re-assess the issue.

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