Any surcharges after March 31 2023 will only be applied as they are now if there is insufficient postage on an item of mail. Customers will still need to apply the correct value of stamps required ...

Last November, HMRC updated its guidance on the 3% surcharge for stamp duty land tax, which means that for some investors and developers, the 3% surcharge is no longer due – the standard 1% rate ...

The 3 percentage point surcharge was brought in by the then chancellor George Osborne in April 2016 as part of a wider range of measures to damp the popularity of buy-to-let.

From Tuesday, August 1, Royal Mail will no longer deliver parcels and letters using 'old' stamps as new barcoded stamps aimed at ‘extensively modernising’ the business and its tracking system ...

Now it is August, you can no longer use non-barcoded stamps, and you could face a surcharge if you do so. This means anyone with a stash of 1st or 2nd class stamps needs to ditch them.

Responses were mixed to the new stamp duty surcharge for overseas buyers of property in England and Northern Ireland.

It states: "Mail posted with non-barcoded Definitive stamps after 31 January 2023, will for the first six months be delivered as normal, no surcharge will be raised.

Since the introduction of the surcharge, the largest falls in investor purchases have been in the South of England, particularly outside London, where high stamp duty bills can make buy-to-let ...

The government is relaxing the three-year rule for reclaiming the stamp duty surcharge. People who purchase new homes before selling their old home are subject to a 3% surcharge, which they can ...