The Daily Telegraph

Angela Rayner accepts £17k golden goodbye after tax scandal

Angela Rayner has accepted almost £17,000 in severance pay, despite previously voting against such payments. The former housing secretary and deputy prime minister was forced to resign after a ...
The Sun

Kemi Badenoch channels her idol Margaret Thatcher by calling her pledge to scrap stamp duty the ‘Chance to Buy’

The policy applies to main homes, not benefitting landlords or second-home buyers TORY leader Kemi Badenoch today channels her idol Margaret Thatcher by calling her pledge to scrap stamp duty the ...
AOL

After His Grandma's Death, She Left Instructions for a Mysterious Lockbox in Europe. 1 Month Later, He's Shocked by What's Inside

Influencer Jake Kind — known on TikTok as Goobi Gubbi — has finally opened the lockbox his late grandmother Mimmy left for his family in Switzerland after a two-week trip Mimmy, who was beloved on ...
The Hindu

Matata, Lilian stamp Kenyan authority at Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon

It was a Kenyan sweep of titles at the 20th Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon, with experienced Alex Matata going under 60 minutes to take the men’s crown and Lilian Rengeruk winning among the women on ...
NOLA.com

How the government shutdown could impact SNAP, WIC and other food stamp programs in Louisiana

WASHINGTON — The Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps, will continue despite a government shutdown, officials say — as long as the standoff doesn't last into ...
The Star

Budget 2026: Stamp duty exemption extended for first-time homebuyers

KUALA LUMPUR: The Government has proposed extending the full stamp duty exemption on transfer instruments and loan agreements for first-time homebuyers purchasing homes priced up to RM500,000 for ...
ABC12

Saginaw woman bound over to trial over a food stamp fraud case

SAGINAW COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - A Saginaw woman will face a possible trial as she is accused of using her Bridge Card to fund a bakery business. Court records show 32-year-old Talia Teneyuque is ...
The Star

Stamp duty: Get ready for self-assessment

ORIGINATING from the British colonial era, stamp duty under the current Stamp Act 1949 (Stamp Act), which incorporates elements of the UK stamp duty regime, has traditionally functioned as a ...
BBC

Five ways abolishing stamp duty could change the housing market

The debate around stamp duty is intensifying. When Kemi Badenoch said a future Conservative government would abolish it on the purchase of main homes, it went down well at the Tory Party conference.
The Independent

Kemi Badenoch has put her stamp on the Tory leadership with big tax reveal – but will it be enough to save her?

For much of this Tory conference in Manchester, the world’s oldest and once most successful democratic party looked like it was teetering on the edge of oblivion. Key shadow ministers were delivering ...
The Independent

The Tories have vowed to abolish stamp duty – what is it and what will Labour and Reform do?

Stamp duty land tax is charged by HMRC, which you have to pay when buying a property or piece of land over a certain price. You have to pay stamp duty on residential properties in England and Northern ...
This is Money

Could we REALLY scrap stamp duty? What ditching the hated tax would cost and why it could boost the economy

Stamp duty should be scrapped to improve social mobility, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said in her speech to the party conference today. Badenoch promised the Tories would get rid of the 'bad tax ...