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Newspage #ScrapStampDuty campaign

ended 10. August 2026

Many of you are increasingly vocal about the need to scrap stamp duty. It’s a theme that regularly appears in responses to property and mortgage alerts. So we've launched a dedicated #ScrapStampDuty campaign to build the case for reforming one of the biggest barriers to moving home.

The campaign will generate regular media opportunities, expert comment, opinion pieces and data-led stories aimed at keeping Stamp Duty Land Tax reform firmly in the news agenda. As a campaign member, you'll be able to help shape the messaging and contribute ideas for stories and angles.

You'll also feature prominently in the media throughout the campaign, with exclusive opportunities to be quoted in media outreach and guaranteed inclusion in stories sent to journalists in national, local and trade media.

As this campaign will require extra time and resources above and beyond the regular alerts, we’ll be charging a one-off fee of £50+VAT to be part of it. If you join the campaign, a #ScrapSDLT tag will be added to your Newspage, and you’ll be able to respond to the alerts and feature in the stories that are published. We’ll also be putting you forward for broadcast slots, both on radio and TV.

To be part of the campaign, pay the sign-up fee of £50+VAT >> here <<.

7 responses from the Newspage community

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Rupert Collingwood
Founder at The London Broker
Great idea, but we need to be careful what we wish for on this. A move to provide Burnham with the opportunity to create this new combined tax could become very very toxic quite quickly. Can I recommend that everyone reads at least in part the onward policy paper to understand what this might look like and importantly the costs.
https://www.ukonward.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ONWJ7368-Stamp-Duty-Report-190719-WEB.pdf

There is something very different between freeing up the market by reducing / removing stamp duty and replacing it with what is being proposed.
Moreover the more this is discussed by Burnham and the new chancellor (whoever that might be) the more the market may come to a halt once again between now and whenever the new chancellors budget is announced.
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Mike Staton
Director at Staton Mortgages
I am currently trying to sell my property but as the value falls into nightmare territory for stamp duty, i am seeing first hand the difficulty that the whole country is feeling with this horrendous and unneccesary tax. This campaign is much needed and will hopefully help to abolish this horrendous blockade that has been put in buyers way of purchasing a property and is stifling the property industry, bringing the £300k+ property market to a grinding halt!
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Ben Perks
Managing Director at Orchard Financial Advisers
The property market desperately needs a kick up the arse, and scrapping stamp duty is a tried and tested solution. Get a freeze on stamp duty, at least, and let’s get the market bubbling for the 2nd half of the year.
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Harvey Dhillon
Founder & CEO at Zmartly
Stamp duty is the tax that punishes moving. Almost every other cost of buying a home pays for a service. This one is just a charge for doing the deal at all, and if you tax something, you get less of it. So the market seizes up. The older couple who would downsize stay put, the family that has outgrown its home sits tight, and the first rung gets harder to reach. Since April 2025 the point where stamp duty starts has dropped back to £125,000, so someone buying a typical £300,000 home now hands over £5,000 before they have painted a wall. First-time buyers still get a break, paying nothing up to £300,000, but that help disappears above £500,000, which in much of the South East buys a flat. Reforming it is not a giveaway to the wealthy. It is about being able to move for a job, a school or old age without a five-figure toll. Tax moving less, and the chain starts to flow again.
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Martin Rayner
Financial Adviser at Compton Financial Services
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Mark Alexander
Founder at Property118.com
Happy to support this. Stamp Duty has become one of the biggest barriers to housing mobility and sensible investment decisions. The tax often influences how people buy just as much as whether they buy. Reform should focus on encouraging transactions, not penalising them. We’ve also highlighted how understanding the existing rules can legitimately save buyers substantial sums in the right circumstances, particularly with portfolio purchases: Buying six properties? The Stamp Duty bill depends on where they are⁠.
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Jamie Elvin
Director at Strive Mortgages
Stamp duty is effectively a tax on mobility. We say we want first-time buyers to get on the ladder, families to move into suitable homes and older owners to downsize, then put a sizeable tax bill in the way of every move. Scrapping or seriously reforming it wouldn’t just help individual buyers; it could unlock entire property chains. More people moving means more homes coming to market, more choice and a healthier flow of transactions. But reform has to mean reform, not simply replacing stamp duty with another punitive property tax. The objective should be simple: stop taxing people so heavily for having the audacity to move home