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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2006/section-162",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2006/section-162.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/25",
  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2006",
  "path": "section/162",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "162",
  "heading": "Raising of thresholds",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) In Schedule 5 to FA 2003 (stamp duty land tax: amount of tax chargeable: rent), in paragraph 2(3) (calculation of tax chargeable in respect of rent), in Table A (bands and percentages for residential property), for “£120,000”, in both places, substitute “ £125,000 ”.\n(3) In Schedule 13 to FA 1999 (stamp duty: instruments chargeable and rates of duty), in paragraph 4 (bands and percentages for conveyance or transfer on sale of property other than stock or marketable securities), for “£120,000”, in both places, substitute “ £125,000 ”.\n(4) The amendments made by subsections (1) and (2) have effect in relation to any transaction of which the effective date (within the meaning of Part 4 of FA 2003) is after 22nd March 2006.\n(5) The amendment made by subsection (3) has effect in relation to instruments executed after 22nd March 2006.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 162(1) omitted (with effect in accordance with s. 2(2) of the amending Act) by virtue of Stamp Duty Land Tax Act 2015 (c. 1), Sch. para. 21(a) (with s. 2(3)-(6))"
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/25/section/162",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:06:52.518251+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
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    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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}