Payments swelled the Treasury’s coffers by £4.3bn in the six months since April, £400m more than in the same period in the previous financial year and a rise of 10 per cent, new data from HM Revenue and Customs shows.
The chancellor Rachel Reeves has been warned that her plan to hike the tax at next week’s Budget risks punishing middle-class homeowners.
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