209946 - Stamp Duty Land Tax (Answered)

Mrs Anne Main
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of property transactions have been liable for stamp duty land tax between each of the stamp duty thresholds in each year since 2005-06; and what estimate he has made of such figures in each of the next five years.

Mr David Gauke

In 2013-14 SDRT receipts were £9,273m. In the March 2013 Economic and fiscal outlook OBR report SDRT receipts for 2013-14 were forecast to be £9,500m. The full report is available at this link:

http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/economic-fiscal-outlook-march-2014/

The numbers of historic property transactions occurring in different price bands for the requested years is published as part 3 of the publication “Annual UK Property Transactions Statistics 2014”. The latest release can be found at this link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-uk-property-transactions-statistics-2013

The OBR has responsibility for forecasting SDLT, and currently the OBR produce a total SDLT forecast which is not split by tax band.