73% of Brits think that stamp duty should either be abolished or cut significantly
Adam Smith Insights conducted polling on behalf of the Adam Smith Institute exploring Britons’ attitude to Stamp Duty. The results were striking, revealing that a vast majority of voters believe that Stamp Duty should either be abolished or cut significantly.
The Tories propose an end to the SDLT charges for primary residences - amounting to a £4.5billion tax cut.
It comes as the budget is fast approaching and the government is on track to miss its new homebuilding target, with just 695,000 housing transactions completed in 2024/25, far below pre-2008 averages, 800,000 transactions.
Earlier this month the ASI released research showing that abolishing stamp duty on primary residences could unlock the development of 38,000 homes a year and 349,000 housing transactions every year
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Methodology:
The fieldwork dates were from 3rd to 5th November 2025, with a sample of 2,052 GB adults. The sample was collected using online panels. The poll was weighted to population targets to match the GB adult population profile across age, gender, region, ethnicity, and 2024 general election vote. These population targets were based on ONS 2021 UK Census data, age-by-vote distributions derived from Ipsos’s post-election analysis: “How Britain voted in the 2024 election”, national vote share data from the Electoral Reform Society’s 2024 general election results, and YouGov/BES polling. Respondents were filtered for completion quality (e.g., speeding), and responses with incomplete or invalid data were excluded from analysis. No imputation was applied. The poll, with a median completion time of approximately 3.5 minutes, has a margin of error of ±2.2%.
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