Yet a different version of which of the three is her main residence…How many ‘working’ people are is a position to flip to dodge the taxes that pay for public services?
Angela Rayner saved £40,000 in stamp duty on her new seaside flat after telling tax authorities it was her main home, The Telegraph can disclose.
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The Deputy Prime Minister is understood to have removed her name from the deeds of her house in Greater Manchester a few weeks before buying an £800,000 seaside flat in Hove, East Sussex.
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The changes enabled Ms Rayner to avoid paying £70,000 stamp duty, which would have been applicable if Hove was her second home. Instead she is thought to have paid £30,000 stamp duty, saving her £40,000 in the process.
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But she has also told Tameside council in Manchester that her constituency house remains her primary residence and informed Brighton and Hove council that her apartment there was a second home for council tax purposes.
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Although the changes are entirely legal, the arrangements will raise questions over whether she has deliberately conducted her property affairs to pay less stamp duty and council tax.
A surcharge on stamp duty for second home owners was introduced by the previous Tory government in 2016, the rate of which was raised by Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, last October in a move designed to target the wealthy and boost revenue for the Treasury.
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/08/28/angela-rayner-dodges-40000-stamp-duty/