Brown suspends homebuyer tax
China Daily | Updated: 2008-09-03 07:28
A woman looks at houses for sale in an estate agent's window in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK. Bloomberg News |
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suspended a homebuyer tax and proposed spending 1 billion pounds ($1.8 billion) sooner than planned to help reverse Britain's worst housing slump in at least 18 years.
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