By Chris Dorrell Cutting stamp duty on the purchase of properties and shares should come top of the Chancellor’s list of potential tax cuts in the Spring Budget, a leading think tank has said. Despite the government’s parlous fiscal position, with debt at its highest level since the 1960s, Jeremy Hunt is all but certain to unveil tax cuts in the Budget next week. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) argued that rather than focusing on attention-grabbing cuts to income tax, Hunt should focus his attention on “particularly damaging” taxes, such as stamp duties. Paul Johnson, director of the IF…