BBCNEWS Pandora Papers October 6, 2021 02:57:00
Rules, but because they had not bought the property directly, they didn't have to pay stamp duty, the tax on buying a house. the stamp duty on a property like this would be more than £300,000. that is what you or i would pay if we bought this property direct from somebody else. but the blairs did not pay it. that does not look great and it partly does not look great because most people can't do the same thing. even if what the blairs did was perfectly legal and legitimate in the business world, it feels instinctively really unfair, because they got access to an advantage, a potential advantag...