From: "R. Mark Clayton" 
Newsgroups: alt.uk.law uk.finance
Subject: Re: Minimising Stamp-Duty on a Property Sale
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 22:42:54 +0000 (UTC)


"croft"  wrote in message
news:bm3qou$pna$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk...
> x-no-archive: yes
>
> dont thnk seller will accept duty payable by the by=uer, as they would
have had
> to paythis when they originally bough the property..
>
> how about negotiating to pay less for the house, and buy the contents
> (carpets utilities etc) separately? total the same, but with less to vat
man!

as in

> > £250k plus some amount for F&F.
>

Boy were we paying attention writing this reply!