Second home owners sell-up following Welsh Council Tax hike

A former advisor to Rishi Sunak - who also devised the Covid furlough scheme - has come up with 'a practical alternative to replace Stamp Duty & Council Tax'.

Taxing mansions has been the talk of the town for four years now, but August was a bit quiet on the Mansion Tax front.

Inheritance Tax payments will more than double over the next ten years, suggests the Institute for Fiscal Studies, as it pitches a significant rejig of the death tax regime.