UK increases stamp duty tax on second homes
LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) -Britain will raise the stamp duty tax paid on second house purchases from Thursday, in a bid to raise revenue to support first-time homebuyers, finance minister Rachel Reeves announced in her first budget on Wednesday.
The surcharge on second homes will increase by 2 percentage points to 5%, Reeves said.
"This will support over 130,000 additional transactions from people buying their first home, or moving home, over the next five years," Reeves said.
Reeves did not extend a discount for home-buyers that is set to expire next year.
At present, stamp duty is paid on homes worth more than 250,000 pounds ($325,000), or 425,000 pounds for first-time buyers.
Those thresholds, introduced in September 2022 in former Prime Minister Liz Truss' mini-budget, are due to expire at the end of March 2025.
Housing is a key pillar of the new Labour government's plans to boost economic growth.
It has an aim of delivering 370,000 new houses annually over the next five years, up from a former target of 300,000 that was abandoned by the previous Conservative government.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think tank, last month called on Reeves to avoid increasing the threshold at which stamp duty is first payable which it said would act as a drag on growth.
Wednesday's announcement might make it harder for first-time buyers to get on the property ladder and for people to move.
Stamp duty, payable in England and Northern Ireland, is a graduated tax that climbs from zero up to a maximum of 12% on the portion of the property price above 1.5 million pounds.
($1 = 0.7704 pounds)
Reporting by David Milliken and Sachin Ravikumar, writing by Suban Abdulla; Editing by Hugh Lawson
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