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Britain’s housing crisis won’t be fixed without a new tax landscape

The chancellor failed to announce reforms that might tackle some of Britain’s chronic problems, they say.

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We need policies that stop treating property as a store of wealth and that allow people to move home cheaply John Healey’s critics on the right and left accused him of dodging the big questions in his first budget.

Healey’s scatter-gun budget, as the Resolution Foundation called it, was more about politics than economics, and unapologetically so.

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