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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

Castles outside London to escape 'mansion tax' as one-bed flats in capital hit by new levy in Budget

Property prices are so high in London that even one-bedroom flats are to be caught by the “mansion tax” while some castles outside the capital will escape being hit by it.

Castles which will almost certainly not be impacted by the new levy on homes worth over £2 million, announced by Rachel Reeves in her Budget, include 18th-Century Tawstock Castle in North Devon, which has its own helipad.

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