Business Rates

Autumn Budget 2018: Business rates cut for SMEs and new digital services tax

Chancellor Philip Hammond has confirmed plans to give smaller retailers a 33% cut to business rates and introduced a new…

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Retail sector ‘to face £186.45m business rates increase next April’

Retail firms will see business rates increase by £186.45 next April for the year 2019/20, according to real estate advisor…

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Business rates could be changed to help retailers, says Greg Clark

Secretary of state for business Greg Clark has admitted that business rates could be changed in order to help high…

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John Lewis Oxford Street flagship sees business rates rise 57% in a year

John Lewis’ flagship on Oxford Street, London is expected to see its business rates tax rise from £12.68m to £19.91m…

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Bailiffs visited more than 200 firms daily over unpaid business rates

In the first year after the new business rates revaluation came into effect, councils sent bailiffs to more than 200…

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200,000 companies sued over business rates

Over 200,000 businesses were taken to a Magistrates court for failing to pay for businesses rates under the first year…

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UK Treasury rejects retailers’ business rates reform calls

The UK Treasury has today rejected calls from retailers who say business rates should be reformed to create a level…

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BRC calls for two-year freeze on business rates

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has asked the government to consider freezing business rates for two years to ease the…

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Almost 133,000 business rates appeals from 2010 still remain unresolved

More than 133,000 businesses are still waiting for an appeal of their business rates valuation from 2010 to be resolved,…

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Tesco CEO blames business rates for decline of the high street

Dave Lewis the CEO of Tesco has said that business rates have played a “large part” in the decline of…

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