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.

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。

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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.

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。

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A copy of the lease contract and a copy of the landlord's property to the tax bureau to buy stamp duty.

将租房合同和房东房产证复印件上交税务局去买印花税。

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Shields, former vice president with Facebook, is confident that the lack of stamp duty tax will be a boon to entrepreneurs in the technology space.

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Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (essentially head of the treasury and czar of all things financial) explained that the decision to abolish the stamp duty tax was meant to benefit small and medium sized businesses.

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Americans do not like stamp duty tax.

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