Tax & Finance · Budget & fiscal policy
UK Conservatives' "Alternative King's Speech": scrap Stamp Duty, repeal the "family farm tax"
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The Conservatives' Alternative King's Speech includes commitments to scrap Stamp Duty Land Tax and repeal the inheritance-tax change on agricultural property. Both remain live reference points for housing-mobility and rural-policy commentary.
A domestic anchor for the international comparisons elsewhere this week — particularly Stamp Duty against continental supply-side housing measures, and the rural-property angle against European land-use reform.
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