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There is nothing much you can do if your council tax is increasing, or you are buying a house and facing a higher stamp duty bill.

Home buyers in England and Northern Ireland will pay more stamp duty after 1 April, when two key thresholds are reduced.

Home buyers are scrambling to complete purchases by the end of the month or face paying thousands of pounds extra in stamp duty.

Anyone starting a search for a property now would likely struggle to move before the stamp duty changes.

He also awarded them "substantial damages", including the stamp duty land tax, all the costs incurred by them in seeking to eradicate the infestation of moths, and £15,000 for ruined clothes.