The number of households being forced to pay higher stamp duty rates has more than doubled in the past decade.
Rising house prices mean that a quarter of buyers are paying duty of 3 percent or more up from just one in ten in 2003, say Savills.
Government figures also show that households paid more inheritance tax – £3.4bn – last year than at any point since 2008.
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