The real reason abolishing stamp duty won’t help first-time buyers
By Nigel Gilbert, Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey
Corinna Elsenbroich, Reader in Computational Modelling, University of Glasgow
Yahya Gamal, Research Assistant (Urban Big Data), University of Glasgow
Compared to a deposit, stamp duty is often a small cost – but axing it would cost the government billions a year.
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Thursday, October 16, 2025