All Business rates articles – Page 24
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OpinionComment: The past holds the key for rates appeal success
Business rates are back in the news again. Justin King, Chief Executive of Sainsbury’s, has added his voice to the chorus calling for changes in the way retailers are taxed.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Have the Portas Pilot towns succeeded?
It’s been just over a year since the first 12 Portas Pilot towns were named, but has the project worked? Matthew Valentine assesses its progress.
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NewsBusiness rates review urged following Hackett's controversial bill
Experts have urged Government to review the business rates system after accusing the system of favouring prestigious London stores including Hackett and shunning declining high streets.
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OpinionComment: North London retail rents - a lesson in greed
A small London ‘village’ where rents are rising serves as a microcosm for what is happening everywhere.
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NewsBusiness rates drive tax burden increase for retailers
Retailers are struggling under the weight of a tax bill that has rocketed by 65% since 2005 amid rising business rates, corporation tax and property taxes.
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NewsGovernment shuns £10m computer which could transform business rates revaluations
A £10m computer which could prevent retailers from paying unfairly high business rates bills is sitting idle due to Government budget cuts.
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OpinionBlog: The problem of business rates is here to stay
This week proved that the crucial issue of business rates is not going to go away for the retail sector nor for the Government as the extortionate costs retailers are facing once again grabbed column inches.
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NewsThink tank calls on the Government to freeze business rates for two years
Think tank, the Policy Exchange, has called on the Government to implement a two-year freeze on business rates to ease the pressure on ailing high streets.
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NewsUK has the highest business rates bill across EU, says report
The Government has been urged to revamp the business rates system after the UK was named the country with the highest business rates bill across the EU.
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NewsBusiness rates have turned high streets into cash cows for Government, says MP
Simon Danczuk, MP for Rochdale, has slammed the Government’s business rates policy and accused it of using the high street “as a cash cow to milk to exhaustion”.
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NewsGovernment to debate out-of-date business rates system next week
Simon Danczuk, MP for Rochdale, will urge the Government to reform the business rates system in a commons debate on Tuesday, saying “business rates are past their sell-by-date”.
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NewsMorrisons and Alliance Boots submit calls for rates reform to Select Committee
Morrisons and Alliance Boots have made fresh calls to the Government to reform business rates, which they say are restricting investment and growth.
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OpinionComment: Tackling business rates would create the lifeline that high streets need
Governments exaggerate. We all know that. Most of us laugh when we hear ministers promising a New Jerusalem.
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AnalysisThe UK Retail Sector Inquiry: What do retailers need to know?
Parliament is to consider the health of the retail sector as it goes through a period of change.
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NewsRetailers’ costs squeezed as business rates increase comes into force
As the new business rates increase came into force yesterday, retailers will be hit with an additional £175m business rates bill this year.
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NewsInquiry into the retail sector to look at business rates impact
Tackling the business rates burden is likely to be a major part of the recently-launched inquiry into the UK retail sector.
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AnalysisThe Budget: What do retailers need to know?
Last week’s Budget brought some good news for retailers and consumers but failed to address business rates
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NewsMoss Bros store growth "hamstrung" by high business rates
The Government must tackle high business rates, which are stunting store growth at Moss Bros, said chief executive Brian Brick.
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OpinionComment: The Government must tackle the unfair business rates system
The Chancellor George Osborne seems to have ignored calls for a temporary freeze on business rates in this year’s Budget.
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NewsFair Rates For Retail campaign for business rates marches on
Retail Week has not given up the fight to get a fairer business rates system for retailers despite the Chancellor George Osborne shunning the sector in his Budget announcement today.