It isn't bizarre. Many people stay in "the family home" for decades with no family living with them. Our tax system positively encourages them to stay there and not to move and will ha… (View Post)

The problem is that if you have paid off your mortgage so dont have major ongoing housing costs there's little incentive to move, or downsize, even though it's the socially desirable thing … (View Post)

The tax should be abolished altogether. There is no reason to be taxing mobility. Taxes should be consistently applied, only taxing those who are mobile is perverse and discourages mobility. Those wh… (View Post)

I said how I would fund it - a land value tax paid by everyone who owns land annually, rather than one when moving. (View Post)

Yes, many of us have been making this exact same point for years. Stamp Duty is a wretched tax on mobility. If you are an elderly couple in a 5 bed house and you stay there until you pass on you don&… (View Post)