Wait. Coppola only made one mistake with Apocalypse Now? (View Post)

You don't need anything like 1%. According to Savill's the total value of residential real estate in the UK is 9.1 trillion. 1% would therefore raise 91 billion. Not only that, but you would also wan… (View Post)

A 1% property tax (which you can probably cut to 0.6-75% if you have higher tiers for rarely used properties) could have been a fabulous driver of leveling up. It would have made living (and having b… (View Post)

If you abolish CGT, then people like me will just convert all their income into capital gains. (View Post)

Abolish stamp duty entirely, and replace it with an annual property tax charge based a percentage of the property's value. This would (a) actually spur new building activity and (b) make it easier fo… (View Post)