‘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...
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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...
Burnham is coming for your home
Perhaps a raid on pensions? You guessed it, the Chancellor has already dragged them into the purview of inheritance tax.Even...
Letters: Burnham’s property tax overhaul threatens to destroy aspiration
SIR – Heather Wetzel claims that a new land value tax (LVT) would be “fairer”, as well as “more efficient...
Labour’s house of cards on tax will come tumbling down
While Sir Keir Starmer’s administration has been fiscally irresponsible, the Labour MPs and trade union barons putting Andy Burnham in...
What a turbo-charged Burnham mansion tax would mean for your home
Property experts have warned that tightening the tax squeeze on homeowners threatens to not only trigger fresh turmoil in the...
How Holyrood’s punishing taxes hollowed out English border towns
Patrick Paton, of Berwick estate agency Paton and Co, says more and more high-earning professionals have been moving their families...
How Andy Burnham’s radical land tax will rock your house price
“Our campaign isn’t about raising taxes. There’s no room to increase our property taxes. It is a case of rebalancing,...
How Labour’s mansion tax will catch you (sooner or later)
Homeowners, brace yourselves. From April 2028, yet more bills will be added to the heap. Labour’s “mansion tax” plans mean...
Edinburgh to bring back 300pc second homes tax
Local authorities were granted powers by the Scottish Government to raise taxes on second home owners by an unlimited amount...
