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Graphs of residential stamp duty land tax and rates for individuals for before and after 4 December 2014. Stamp duty land tax (SDLT) is a tax on land transactions in England and Northern Ireland. It was introduced by the Finance Act 2003. It largely replaced stamp duty with effect from 1 December 2003.
The Budget in 2017 abolished stamp duty for first-time home buyers in England and Wales purchasing homes up to £300,000, saving first-time buyers up to £5,000. Additionally, first-time buyers spending up to £500,000 will only pay stamp duty at 5% on the amount in excess of £300,000. Those spending over £500,000 will pay full stamp duty. [17]
Business rates are collected throughout the United Kingdom. Domestic rates are collected in Northern Ireland and were collected in England and Wales before 1990 and in Scotland before 1989. Rates are usually paid by the occupier of a property, and only in the case of unoccupied property does the owner become liable to pay them.
Stamp duty land tax (SDLT) is payable on property transactions in England and Northern Ireland. Tax is paid at different rates on different portions of the purchase price. For example, on a £600,000 house, no tax is paid on the first £250,000, and the portion (£350,000) in the £250,000-£925,000 tax band is charged at 5%, i.e. £17,500.
In the UK, gains made by companies fall under the scope of corporation tax rather than capital gains tax. In 2017–18, total capital gains tax receipts were £8.3 billion from 265,000 individuals and £0.6 billion from trusts, on total gains of £58.9 billion. [1] The current operation of the capital gains tax system is a recognised issue.
People who were exempt from paying church or poor rates, for reasons of poverty, were exempt from the window tax. [8] Window tax was relatively unintrusive and easy to assess. Manchester Royal Infirmary had to pay a tax of 1/9d per window on the windows of the rooms occupied by staff of the infirmary in 1841—a total of £1 9/9d. [ 9 ]
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Tobacco duty was increased by 2%. [5] Hand rolling tobacco duty was increased by 3%. [5] Fuel duty frozen at 57.95p per litre. [6] VAT on tampons was to be cut from 5% to 0%, as soon as EU obligations allowed. [7] (The tax on women's sanitary products was abolished on 1 January 2021, when the transitional Brexit period expired.)