Stuart Adam argues in the Financial Times that stamp duty land tax could well be the UK’s worst-designed tax.

Authors

Stuart Adam
Stuart Adam

Senior Economist

Stuart is a Senior Economist working in the Tax sector, and focuses on analysing the design of the tax and benefit system.

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Publisher
Financial Times

Suggested citation

Adam, S. (2013). Fundamentally flawed (stamp duty land tax) [Comment] Financial Times. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/articles/fundamentally-flawed-stamp-duty-land-tax (accessed: 10 May 2024).

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