Rishi Sunak's 2021 Budget: 'Why does Stamp Duty exist?' asks Rod Liddle

Rishi Sunak's 2021 Budget opinion - Sun columnist Rod Liddle wonders why stamp duty even exists?

The politicians are ingenious at grabbing money off us. Take stamp duty, for example. Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced that the stamp duty holiday will continue until June. Yay and thrice yay.

But why do we have it in the first place? Why should the Government steal tens of thousands of quid from each of us just because we want to buy a house? Where is the justification? It’s like a Mafioso’s protection racket. (And as it happens, stamp duty was invented in Italy. Along with pizza and fascism.)

They used to tax our windows until people started building houses with no windows in them.

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ROD LIDDLE One day the government will tax the very air that we breathe
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14226800/one-day-theyll-tax-air-we-breathe/

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