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Evening Standard
Politics
Rachael Burford

Angela Rayner 'dodged £40,000 stamp duty payment when buying Hove flat'

Angela Rayner has been accused of avoiding £40,000 in stamp duty when buying her new Brighton flat after telling tax authorities it was her main home.

The Deputy Prime Minister is understood not to have been liable for the extra payment after she removed her name from the deeds of her property in her Ashton-under-Lyne constituency before buying the £800,000 apartment in Hove, East Sussex, in May, the Telegraph reported.

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