Reports in this morning’s Daily Telegraph accuse the Deputy Prime Minister and Greater Manchester MP of avoiding paying £40,000 of stamp duty on her seaside flat after she told authorities it was her primary residence.
The paper accused her of removing her name from the official deed to her house in Greater Manchester weeks before buying an £800,000 flat in Hove
According to The Telegraph, Rayner would have had to pay £70,000 in stamp duty on a second property, so the change saved her £40,000. She is thought to have paid only £30,000.
