article_snippet.sent: which would last three years – would be funded by a further squeeze on tax avoidance, higher levies on foreign buyers and cuts in tax relief for landlords who fail to keep properties up to standard.
article_snippet.sent: They are also meant to trump Chancellor George Osborne’s reforms to stamp duty, announced late last year, which have delivered savings for 98 per cent of homebuyers.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Osborne’s changes are paid for by big hikes to duty on more expensive properties.
article_snippet.sent: Local authorities will be able to levy council tax on sites which remain undeveloped to try to force developers’ hands.
article_snippet.sent: Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls insists the party’s plan for stamp duty is ‘fully funded’.
article_snippet.sent: Eric Pickles, right, said rent control is the most effective way of destroying a city - bar bombing rent control .
article_snippet.sent: The stamp-duty cut would cost £225million a year.
article_snippet.sent: A ‘national register of landlords’ will mean this can be cut by at least 20 per cent, generating £100million, Labour claims.
article_snippet.sent: A ‘national register of landlords’ will mean this can be cut by at least 20 per cent, generating £100million, Labour claims would also increase tax paid by holding companies that buy UK property on behalf of investors and raise stamp duty on buyers from outside the EU.
article_snippet.sent: the EU would also cut tax relief that rogue landlords get for repairs and upkeep when rogue landlords properties are not up to standard.
article_snippet.sent: Landlords who let furnished properties can claim tax relief even if Landlords who let furnished properties can claim tax relief even if they are not investing in their property are not investing in Landlords who let furnished properties can claim tax relief even if they are not investing in their property property.
highlights_snippet.sent: Tax break funded by squeeze on tax avoidance, higher levies on foreign buyers and cuts in tax relief for landlords who fail to maintain properties .
  