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Financial Times:
Time to sound the horn for council tax reform

11 August 2017

By raising the costs of moving home, stamp duty is likely to have “very substantial detrimental effects” on the property market, according to research released this week by academics from the London School of Economics and Finland’s VATT Institute.

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

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