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Fuck it. I'm currently buying a house at £2.5m* and I've now got to find £215k tax instead of £175k.
Not the case (if you were). Those currently buying a house get to choose which set of rules they wish to work under, provided you have exchanged by today (4 Dec 2014) but not yet completed.
See the chart and text in section 1.208 here:
going by the chart, the old rules are only really better once you get to around the £1m mark.
rhowe
@Hefty
Fuck it. I'm currently buying a house at £2.5m* and I've now got to find £215k tax instead of £175k.
Last straw Gideon, I'm definitely voting Green now*.
*I am doing no such thing.