Darling宣布了一些对首次购买房屋者提供的临时帮助，包括免除印花税，不动产购置税，对养老金领取者提供额外支付。

Mr Darling announced some temporary help for most first-time homebuyers, which will relieve them of stamp duty, a property-purchase tax, and extended some extra payments to pensioners.

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即使他们纳的税全是伦敦餐厅大餐的增值税或住在梅菲尔(译者注：伦敦上流住宅区)的公寓所上交的印花税，仍是布朗的额外收入。

Even if all the tax they pay is VAT on expensive meals in London restaurants or stamp duty on flats in Mayfair, it is still additional income for Mr Brown.

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