UK urged to tax £3tn windfall from 20 years of soaring house prices

Thinktank says capital gains tax should be applied so poorer households are spared from paying more in tax The £3tn windfall from soaring house prices in the past 20 years should be subject to a capital gains levy so that poorer households can be spared paying more in tax, a thinktank has urged. A report from the Resolution Foundation said the government should consider applying capital gains tax (CGT) to increases in the value of main residences in the UK as well as to sales of second homes, i...