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03/22/2006: "A New Tax Year, A New Budget"

Gordon Brown's latest budget was todays big news - nothing too exciting and for once nothing that drastic to affect small businesses.

It's a shame that the only change to stamp duty was to raise the lower limit by £5000 - what with the millions going towards shared equity schemes it seems a bit of a joke to only up the limit for stamp duty to £125K when the average house price is now over £200K! Oh well...