THE bearlike doctor (think teddy bear crossed with grizzly; shoe-button eyes offset by gray stubble on the chin) in the jailhouse scrubs (his rumpled green pajamas are stamped "Property of Mount Sinai Hospital" at frequent intervals) is, besides being an artsy type, a Democrat.
He will provide you with a signed, dated, and stamped property survey illustration as well as a written property survey report.
"On buying the property you may have to pay the equivalent of VAT (if it is a newly built property), stamp duty (if it is a resale property) or some other form of sales tax," says Paul Dimambro, the head of Hargreaves Lansdown Currency Service.
The Conservatives have rejected a mansion tax as an attack on aspiration but have said they have taken action to curb loopholes in property taxation, including on corporate and offshore transactions, while increasing stamp duty on property sales above £2m.
Capital gains tax, inheritance tax or stamp duty on property purchases can often be avoided by offshore owners.
Shirley's name reappeared in a complicated avoidance scheme used by Tesco, in which specially created partnerships escaped stamp duty on property deals involving the firm's supermarkets.
I want more people to afford a home of their own, so let's take stamp duty off property in the current lowest band of £125,000 to £250,000.
But today's address was broadly loyal, apart from an appeal to Chancellor George Osborne to cut stamp duty on property sales, which he warned was "stamping on the fingers" of those who want to get on the housing ladder.
Scots could thus end up paying more, less, or the same in income tax as taxpayers south of the border.In this section Platoons under siege Playground politics The darkest deal Softball War of numbers Enter the chicken king Beyond petroleum The unsung radical Muscle v multiculturalism ReprintsTwo small taxes landfill levy and stamp duty on property sales would also be devolved.
