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Stamp duty causing bottleneck in housing market, report says
10 August 2017
The tax is stopping young families from moving to a larger home, a report says, and deterring older people from downsizing.
Snippet: ...Professor Christian Hilber, who co-authored the report, said: "The key message of our paper is that stamp duty hampers mobility significantly.....
Related publications
‘Transfer Taxes and Household Mobility: Distortion on the Housing or Labor Market?’, Christian A.L. Hilber and Teemu Lyytikäinen, SERC Discussion Paper No.216, June 2017
http://www.spatialeconomics.ac.uk/textonly/SERC/publications/download/sercdp0216.pdf
'Transfer taxes and household mobility: Distortion on the housing or labor market?' Christian A.L. Hilber and Teemu Lyytikäinen Journal of Urban Economics , 2017. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094119017300542