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Axe stamp duty in the Budget, Hammond is told: Scrap `worst tax? to boost the economy, says think-tank
30 October 2017
Earlier this year, a report by the London School of Economics and the VATT Institute for Economic Research said the rate of home moving would be 27 per cent higher without stamp duty.
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‘Transfer Taxes and Household Mobility: Distortion on the Housing or Labor Market?’, Christian Hilber and Teemu Lyytikäinen, SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper No.216, June 2017
http://www.spatialeconomics.ac.uk/textonly/SERC/publications/download/sercdp0216.pdf