One of the worst cases that I have heard is of people selling properties with planning permission for a large extension, so that they do not then pay stamp duty on the builder building the extension, but simply on the property that they have bought. That is the most outrageous case that I have heard recently.
Stamp Duty (Housing Market)
Proceeding contribution from
Anne Main
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 4 September 2014.
It occurred during Adjournment debate
and
Backbench debate on Stamp Duty (Housing Market).
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2014-15
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