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Rent revenues could fund new homes

‘A dispute has arisen between London councils and the Treasury over a planned £3,500...

Budget must tackle tax perversity

‘Janan Ganesh calls on George Osborne to use this week’s Budget to tackle the...

£250m of pension pots spent on housing

‘Official figures suggest that £1bn has been transferred from people’s pensions since new rules...

Queen’s Speech: Tories’ housing plans

‘The government is set to roll out the biggest extension of the Right-To-Buy scheme...

Sajid Javid to cut £10bn of red tape

‘Business Secretary Sajid Javid will today promise to cut at least £10bn of red...

Juncker fears Anglo-Saxon world stands by to wreck the euro

‘In a speech to students in Belgium, Jean-Claude Juncker said hostile financiers in London...

IFS: Taxpayers worse off under all parties

‘The Institute for Fiscal Studies has suggested that households can expect lower incomes, whoever...

Funding Circle secures investment

‘Funding Circle has secured almost £100m from backers including DST Global, a venture capital...

Miliband’s home doesn’t feel like a mansion to him

Ed Miliband has said he and his wife Justine would happily pay a £3,000...

Clegg would raise tax on second homes

Nick Clegg has said owners of second homes in rural beauty spots could face...

Labour will scrap non-dom tax status

Ed Miliband is to announce plans to abolish the non-domiciled tax rule. In a...

Buy-to-let facing pension pot boom

Up to 500,000 savers looking to take advantage of new rules on cashing in...