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Stamp Duty ‘should be abolished as part of a wholesale reform of property taxation’
'SDLT certainly should not be increased,' declares an in-depth new report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and 'a well-designed tax system would have no place for SDLT at all.'
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Strutt & Parker recruits estates & farms head from Savills
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£10mn Notting Hill project offers chance to create ‘one of the area’s great homes’
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