Healey’s mansion tax raid to hit 270,000 families
John Healey’s planned changes to the mansion tax mean more than a quarter of a million families will be hit...
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Labour plans tax raid on holiday cottages
James Murray, a junior Treasury minister, confirmed in a written parliamentary answer that his department was reviewing “the tax treatment...
Billionaire Chris Rokos to keep Wiltshire mansion despite quitting UK for Greece
Billionaire Chris Rokos is to press ahead with the £175m restoration of his Wiltshire mansion despite switching his residency to...
Gordon Brown: Property is already ‘heavily’ taxed
Figures seen by The Telegraph this summer showed that Britain’s yearly council tax intake could rise by £17.6bn by 2030,...
Weybridge: The commuter town most exposed to Labour’s mansion tax
On the commuter belt in Surrey’s “golden triangle”, Weybridge is renowned as one of the most affluent areas of the...
Multimillion-pound homes ‘risk £500k plunge in value’
Prices in London’s most expensive postcodes have dropped by more than a quarter since 2014, according to Savills.Aneisha Beveridge, Connells’...
The Left is cheering a purge of London’s ordinary homeowners
Let’s be clear about what this would mean.If you’re very rich, you can pay this out of pocket, and if...
HMRC claws back £100m from landlords in tax crackdown
HMRC recovered more than £100m in tax from landlords last year following a data-driven crackdown, figures show.Thousands of landlords came...
‘I’m a 91-year-old veteran about to be dragged into mansion tax. This is wrong’
Veteran Cannell Benmore has spent 60 years at his home in Richmond, London. He and his wife live off their...
Mansion tax sparks £247k plunge in Westminster house prices
Labour’s upcoming mansion tax has triggered the biggest fall in Westminster house prices on record.Average house prices in the central...
