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Treasury

Answer

Mr. Flight: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what projections he has made for revenue from stamp duty on (a) property and (b) share transactions in each of the (i) last five and (ii) next three financial years. [163598] Ruth Kelly: Estimates of the revenue from stamp duty on both property and share transactions in each of the last five financial years up to and including 2002-03 are given at http://www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/stats/ stamp duty/03IR151.pdf. Estimated and projected revenues for total stamp taxes in 2003-04 and 2004-05 are published in table C8 of the Budget 2004 report. The breakdown between duty on land and property and share transactions is as follows: £ billion _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 2003-04 2004-05 Stamp taxes on: Land and property 4.9 6.2 Shares 2.6 3.2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

419 c1236W;419 c1238W; 163598

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Housing Property Shares Taxation Stamp duties Tax yields

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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