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More or Less: Behind the Stats
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The Treasury Tweet Says a First Time Buyer Earned £30,000
This saving is only so large because the Treasury tweet looks at a house with a particular price. Because of the way stamp duty thresholds have been structured, if the house had been less than £500,000 then the saving would have been just £6,250. The Treasury has now taken down that tweet. We asked why they deleted the tweet and they said: "We recognise that certain assumptions were made about the profile of the typical first time buyer which were not reflected"
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