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<p>The Government announced at Budget 2018 a new Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) surcharge
of one per cent on non-residents buying residential property in England and Northern
Ireland. This will help control house price growth and so help ensure those resident
in the UK can get on the housing ladder.</p><p> </p><p>A costing for how much the
surcharge will raise will be produced at a future fiscal event once the final design
of the surcharge has been confirmed. This costing will follow the usual process for
analysing the revenue impacts of new tax measures, including being subject to scrutiny
from the Office for Budget Responsibility.</p><p> </p><p>The Government remains committed
to ending rough sleeping. The Chancellor announced £54m of new funding to reduce homelessness
and rough sleeping in last week’s Spending Round. This takes total resource funding
to £422m next year – a real terms increase of 13%.</p>
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