Help with housing costs

This chapter considers the latest trends in respect of help with housing costs, for households in all tenures. In particular it sets out trends in levels of capital gains tax relief for home owners, against the income from stamp duty and the element of Inheritance Tax related to housing assets, and discusses options for reform.

The chapter also comments on the new tax credits, and its poor interface with housing benefits for tenants, and the low level of take up by home owner households. It concludes with a short note on the end, in April 2004, of the direct link between outstanding housing subsidy and housing benefit subsidy in council housing revenue accounts in England and Wales.

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Table 2.6.1	Home-owner taxes and tax reliefs
Table 2.6.2	Stamp duty rates and thresholds
Table 2.6.3	Estimated take-up rates for tax credits by tenure

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