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Two people sell the same home after the same ten years. One pays 2.62m, the other 14.23m. Holding is not what separates them.

“Exempt up to 1.2bn” is right. The sentence that usually follows is not — crossing it does not put the whole gain into tax.

All the Act contains is a 40-80% band. And the tax burden cap for housing was deleted outright in 2023.

Trading up gives you three years; caring for a parent and marriage give ten. And trading up carries a second requirement almost nobody mentions.