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Mansion tax

August 2023

  • Rachel Reeves in Filey.

    Rachel Reeves rules out wealth tax if Labour wins next election

    Shadow chancellor also confirms Starmer leadership pledge to increase 45p top rate is off the table

December 2020

  • Luxury homes in London’s wealthy Kensington district.

    Economic cost of Covid crisis prompts call for one-off UK wealth tax

    Tax experts and economists outline ‘fairest, most efficient’ way to repair public finances and quickly raise £260bn

April 2017

  • John McDonnell

    Labour will promise not to increase VAT or NI, McDonnell hints

    Shadow chancellor says he cannot pre-empt Labour manifesto but signals opposition to rises and says party should rule out mansion tax

June 2016

  • A gold luxury car outside a Chanel branch in Chelsea, London

    Make UK super-rich pay one-off wealth tax, says Fabian Society

    Labour MP Dan Jarvis backs call for levy on richest 0.1% to help cut deficit and protect public services

January 2016

  • Lansdowne Road in Kensington and Chelsea, one of London’s most expensive boroughs.

    Levy on luxury London homes would net £86m a year for social housing

    Property tax would force global super-rich to subsidise affordable housing, say researchers

December 2015

  • Kensington Street Tops U.K. Property Price List<br>Rows of houses stand on Lansdowne Road in the Kensington and Chelsea borough of London, U.K., on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. Egerton Crescent, close to Harrods luxury department store in Knightsbridge, is the most expensive address in the borough, with an average property value of 8.14 million pounds ($13.2 million), Lloyds TSB said. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    Property: living in hope of finding a home of your own

    From dodgy landlords to crowdsourcing to the mansion tax, it’s been an eventful year in the market

June 2015

  • SALCOMBE, ENGLAND - JUNE 01: A estate agents for sale board is displayed outside a property in the seaside town of Salcombe on June 1, 2015 in Devon, England. In a recent study by the Halifax the South Devon resort is now the most expensive seaside town, overtaking Sandbanks in Dorset, with average house prices in the second-home hotspot now reaching 672,874, with prices in the town seeing a massive 69 percent rise over the past decade. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)BusinessFinance

    UK house prices set to surge over rest of 2015 as election uncertainty clears

    Growth in average home value paves way for a further boom over the coming months, although some experts warn against making ‘overblown’ presumptions

May 2015

  • LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 08: British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha Cameron arrive at Downing Street on May 8, 2015 in London, England. After the United Kingdom went to the polls yesterday the Conservative party are confirmed as the winners of a closely fought general election, which has returned David Cameron as Prime Minister with a slender majority for his party. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) **BESTPIX**

    Number of £2m-plus homes for sale more than doubles since election

  • Houses in Muswell HIll.

    A fall in the price of houses new to the market will reverse after Tory win

  • British Land's Leadenhall Building, aka the Cheesegrater, in the City of London.

    British Land indicates Tory election win will boost super-prime property

  • Heather Stewart

    Heather Stewart's business comment
    Election 2015: Beware taking on the predators … and the property market

    Heather Stewart

April 2015

  • ‘I’ve been a Tory for about 20 years. I want to create things, I don’t want handouts’ … Sol Campbell.

    The G2 interview
    Sol Campbell: ‘Are most footballers Tories? Hahaha! Probably’

    He was the Spurs hero who joined arch rivals Arsenal, the team player who had few friends off the pitch: rarely has a footballer been as divisive as Sol Campbell. Now he’s campaigning for the Tories and hinting at running for London mayor. ‘I want to bring people together,’ he says
  • Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, on the campaign trail in Essex on Sunday.

    Lib Dems would stagger introduction of mansion tax, says Nick Clegg

    Deputy prime minister announces cuts across government and welfare spending as well as tax savings to tackle £27bn budget deficit
  • Myleene Klass

    Comedian Ben Elton hits out at Myleene Klass over her mansion tax claims

    Elton tells TV presenter, who ambushed Ed Miliband, she should be proud to make a contribution as he joins other celebrities at Labour party rally

March 2015

  • Labour would apply a mansion tax to high-value properties to raise money for the NHS.

    Labour accuses estate agent of mansion tax 'scaremongering'

  • Grandmother with granddaughter

    Older people are not the enemies of the young – we’re in this together

  • Could UK politicians learn something from House of Cards' President Underwood and his stance on baby boomers?

    Economics viewpoint
    Six taboos that baby boomers avoid thinking about

  • Sadiq Khan

    Labour cannot reverse Tory legal aid cuts, Sadiq Khan says

February 2015

  • Eaton Square in Belgravia, London, where most households would pay the mansion tax proposed by Labo

    Accountability, fairness and the mansion tax

  • Simon Jenkins

    The great mansion tax deception

    Simon Jenkins
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