Your Home After the Budget: Stamp Duty, Council Tax and the Rumours to Ignore
What Wednesday's Budget can and cannot change for your home, what a house cost in 1976, why the price of a roof now shapes who marries and who has children and where Britain is heading by 2076.
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On Wednesday 28th October, Chancellor John Healey stands up to deliver his first Budget, and for weeks the speculation about your home has run ahead of the facts. Stamp duty will be scrapped, say some reports. Council tax will be torn up, say others. Before you delay a purchase or panic about a bill, it helps to separate what the government has said from what it has not.
It also helps to step back. The Budget will change a few numbers. The bigger story is what has happened to the price of a home over a lifetime, and what that price now does to relationships, to family life and to the shape of the country your grandchildren will inherit.
What the government has already ruled out
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