{"id":126932,"date":"2022-06-04T23:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/its-a-top-tory-ploy-so-why-hasnt-rishi-sunak-cut-stamp-duty-phillip-inman\/"},"modified":"2022-06-04T23:31:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T16:31:42","slug":"its-a-top-tory-ploy-so-why-hasnt-rishi-sunak-cut-stamp-duty-phillip-inman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/its-a-top-tory-ploy-so-why-hasnt-rishi-sunak-cut-stamp-duty-phillip-inman\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a top Tory ploy: so why hasn\u2019t Rishi Sunak cut stamp duty? | Phillip Inman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nFiring up the property market with a tax break is usually the Conservatives\u2019 go-to tactic in times of trouble. But the chancellor must have his reasons\u2026Boris Johnson\u2019s government, out of ideas and beyond its sell-by date, is stuck in a rut. With the economy heading south as inflation ravages household incomes, there is a sense among Tory MPs that the chancellor should have something more up his sleeve.Yet all the Treasury can offer them is a looped tape of Rishi Sunak\u2019s 2021 budget speech, when he laid out spending plans that were immediately submerged by the cutbacks and tax rises his fiscal conservatism demanded. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/jun\/04\/rishi-sunak-stamp-duty-cut-conservatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It\u2019s a top Tory ploy: so why hasn\u2019t Rishi Sunak cut stamp duty? | Phillip Inman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Firing up the property market with a tax break is usually the Conservatives\u2019 go-to tactic&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-x1i","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":117658,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/stamp-duty-what-is-it-and-what-has-the-chancellor-changed\/","url_meta":{"origin":126932,"position":0},"title":"Stamp duty: what is it and what has the chancellor changed?","date":"July 8, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Rishi Sunak has announced a stamp duty holiday in his summer statement. 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