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People buying additional property, including buy-to-let or second homes, will face a 3 percentage point surcharge on stamp duty rates from April 2016.

Families receiving tax credits won't be hit as hard as expected after the Chancellor today announced a U-turn on one of the major proposed cuts in the Summer Budget.

Commuters will be able to claim compensation for train delays of just 15 minutes under plans announced in today's Autumn Statement.

The average household will save around £30 a year on energy bills from 2017 as a result of a shake-up of the Government's energy efficiency scheme, Chancellor George Osborne announced today in the Autumn Statement.

Fourteen banks and building societies have now signed up to offer Help to Buy ISAs ahead of the scheme's launch next month, the Chancellor has announced.

'Road tax' rates are to be shaken up for new cars from 2017, while a new 'Roads Fund' is to be established so money raised in England will be spent on maintaining and upgrading roads in the country.

Chancellor George Osborne has today said he will scrap university maintenance grants for new English students and replace them with an enlarged maintenance loan, though according to Martin Lewis, the impact is likely to be more psychological than practical for many.

Parents and grandparents will be able to leave homes worth up to £850,000 to their children without them paying inheritance tax from 2017, rising to £1 million by 2020.

Peer-to-peer savers will be able to get their 'interest' tax-free from April 2016 using a new innovative finance ISA (IFI).