Stamp duty should be slashed, urges Jacob Rees-Mogg

STAMP duty must be slashed and large sections of the green belt declassified as part of a radical package of reforms to tackle Britain's housing crisis, a report demands today. The unpopular tax should be taken back to 2010 levels to kick-start the housing market, the study found. Such a move would make it easier for pensioners to sell larger homes and make room for growing families. -»