Stamp on Stamp Duty - An online petition
Thank you for your vote. We will be publishing the results soon so please do keep an eye on the site. You will also find below our petition on making stamp duty fairer. Please read through and sign if you agree. Let's try and make a difference!
Stamp Duty, what a con. The more times you move, the more times you pay. Let's be honest, it is a tax for nothing and should be abolished. However, realistically, it is never going to be scrapped so perhaps it is time to make some fundamental changes to make it fairer. The best way to show how unfair it currently is is to give an example.
A buyer wants to purchase a home priced at £250,000. At current rates they would pay 1% stamp duty - £2,500. However, if competition for the property pushed the price to £252,500, they would have to pay £7,575. Thus a 1% increase in the price results in a 203% increase in the tax - madness.
This tax should reflect the way income tax is charged and only be payable on the actual amount over the threshold. We have suggested a new structure which reflects, we believe, a much fairer approach, and one that will remove the distortions that are currently experienced at each threshold. It goes something like this...
- The average house price is now around £200,000, so this should be the starting point.
- 0% for the first £200,000
- 5% for the next £800,000
- And 6% on anything above £1 million
Using this scenario, the tax payable on both a £500,000 and £1 million purchase would be exactly the same as it currently is. At all other prices below £1m the tax would be less than present levels and above £1 million, which would include commerical properties, it would be more.
So, please sign our petition that we plan to present to the government when we have enough names. This really will be a strength in numbers exercise, so please encourage everyone you can to sign up. And please only sign it once.
Current signatories
13859 signatories have signed this petition, as there are so many only the most recent 500 are shown on this page:
- PAUL SMITH
- Anthony Clarke
- Janice Rose
- m matty
- Richard Pearson
- Linda Walkden
- Joan Wray-Niles
- Nicholas G Hare
- Jonathan Ainsley
- Michael Hoar
- gary callaway
- Mr & Mrs Wilkins
- darren hester
- Patricia Turner
- Patricia Turner
- cino berigliano
- wendy adams
- Anthony Groves
- Maureen King
- philip johnson
- Allan Pilch
- David bellamy
- Rahana Ali
- Wendy King
- D.Colman
- David K Rowan
- Mr S J Walker
- Martin Arnold
- Christine Bailey
- Lynda Goldsmith
- Gary Shepley
- margaret barker
- Sandra Howells
- Victor Bush
- Marianne Smyth
- R. Gordon
- Susan Yu
- neville slee
- DAVID JOHN ARCHER
- Teresa O'Toole
- Mark Wilson
- lynne tuitt
- shaun bargewell
- julia blackburn
- T. Wilkinson
- r stacey
- Jennie Flory
- Michael Astley
- R M Gee
- Jacqueline Baker
- colin gardener
- Stephen Tang
- Lisa Hopkins
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- MARCUS HARVEY-SCHOLES
- G Doyle
- S. Doyle
- barry myers
- Peter Syme
- rajiv awsasthi
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- David Booth
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- Roger Coker
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