All Business rates articles – Page 27
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OpinionComment: Death and business rates
Two subjects are head and shoulders above all others in retail currently - and death is not one of them
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NewsTwo thirds of retailers warn stores and jobs will be hit if rates rise
Seventy per cent of retailers believe another business rates rise would stunt job creation and result in less investment in new stores.
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NewsDeloitte 'urgently' seeks Comet buyer
Comet stores are to continue to trade for the time being and staff will be paid, administrator Deloitte has said.
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NewsMary Portas backs call to freeze business rates
High street campaigner Mary Portas has lent her support to the Fair Rates for Retail campaign calling for a freeze in business rates next year.
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Business rates dubbed the 'retail poll tax'
The chair of the All Party Parliamentary Retail Group has dubbed business rates the “retail equivalent of the poll tax”.
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OpinionComment: We must ease the bumps in business rates to protect local shops
The Government in committed to seeing healthy high streets and a thriving retail sector in Britain.
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NewsAsda boss Andy Clarke calls for business rates freeze
Asda chief executive Andy Clarke has made a renewed call for business rates to be frozen as retailers face spiralling costs in 2013.
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OpinionComment: Time to say enough is enough on rates burden
Retailers faced up to a grim reality this week. They now know the financial blow they will take as a consequence of the Government’s policy to link business rates to September’s RPI.
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NewsGovernment postpones business rates revaluation to 2017
The Government has been accused of delivering a “further blow to the country’s struggling high streets” by postponing the revaluation of business rates from 2015 to 2017.
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OpinionComment: Join our push for business rates freeze
There is nothing sexy about business rates. They don’t have much globe-trotting glamour and perhaps that is part of the problem.
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OpinionComment: There must be a fairer way of setting business rates for retailers
Given the current state of the market, some of Britain’s leading retailers have called on the government to freeze business rates next year – and can you blame them?
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OpinionBlog: Government should listen to retailers on business rates
Retailers’ fears have been realised as today’s inflation rise of 2.6% could lead to an extra burden of £175m in business rates costs.
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NewsRetailers face £175m business rates bill as inflation rises 2.6%
Retailers face a £175m business rates bill next year as the Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure of inflation rose 2.6% in September.
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NewsRetailers wait for news on £200m rates burden
Retailers will learn whether they face an extra £200m business rates cost burden on Tuesday when inflation figures are revealed.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Retailers rally for 2013 business rates relief
Steep increases in business rates are hurting retailers in the tough trading climate. Tiffany Holland reports on Fair Rates for Retail, our campaign for a rates freeze next year.
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NewsTesco adds its support to Fair Rates for Retail campaign
The UK’s largest retailer, Tesco, has backed the Retail Week and British Retail Consortium campaign for a rates freeze next year. The Government has reacted coolly however.
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OpinionComment: Fair rates for retail will allow focus on growth
As Britain bids to restore national financial self-confidence and goes for economic growth, few industries contribute on the scale of retail.
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NewsFair Rates for Retail: Retailers urge rates freeze
Top retailers have called for a freeze on business rates and changes to how the charge is calculated as they face a likely increase of £200m next year.
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NewsFair Rates for Retail: Retail leaders lend their support
Some of the industry’s top names are backing Retail Week and the BRC’s Fair Rates for Retail campaign to lobby the Government to freeze business rates next year, following two years of punitive rates increases.
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OpinionRetail Surgery: Is there any movement on liability to pay full business rates on empty shops?
Is there any movement yet on the onerous liability to pay full business rates on empty shops?