All Business rates articles – Page 11
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NewsRoad closure prompts retailer to withold business rates
A rural convenience store retailer in the village of Otterburn in Northumberland is leading a campaign to withhold business rates until traders are compensated for heavy sales losses caused by a five-day road closure.
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NewsChancellor urged to cap business rates increases
Chancellor George Osbourne has been urged to stop the planned 5.6% increase in business rates.
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NewsScottish Grocers' Federation slams business rates rise
The Scottish Grocers’ Federation (SGF) has heaped another round of criticism on the government’s plans to introduce a staggered 5.6% business rates increase this April.
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NewsACS fights for cap on business rates increases
The Association of Convenience Stores is spearheading a campaign to cap the annual business rates increase at 2% to keep it in line with government targets for inflation.
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Advice Guide
Business rates due to rise by 5.6%
Retail business rates are set to soar next April following a sharp increase in inflation.
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News
Stores push for business rates freeze
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has called on chancellor George Osborne to freeze business rates for 2012. Following Osborne's recent announcement that council tax would not increase next year, BRC director general Stephen Robertson...
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News
Councils to regain business rates control
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced that local councils will soon be able to keep money collected through business rates rather than it being redistributed through Whitehall.
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News
NI retailers welcome business rates proposals
Proposals to allow smaller stores in Northern Ireland pay less business rates have been welcomed by retailers.
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News
People's Supermarket loses business rates appeal
The London-based People’s Supermarket will appeal against Camden Council’s decision to not grant it discretionary business rates relief, a fact which saw it landed with a massive £78,000 bill for unpaid fees last week...
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News
Discount business rates powers for councils
Local councils are to be given the power to reduce business rate bills.
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News
Shake-up to business rates causes concern
Proposals to give councils the power to set and retain local business rates have been met with anxiety by business groups. The government's White Paper on regional economic growth includes plans to allow councils to keep money collected...
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Advice Guide
New business rates hike on the horizon
Store owners have been advised to challenge business rates if they think they are paying too much.
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News
Deadline nears for business rates appeal
Retailers who wish to contest their business rates over the past five years have until March 31 to submit their appeal.
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News
Business rates relief scheme unveiled
Store owners facing massive business rates hikes in 2010 will get some reprieve as the government announced a transitional relief scheme.
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News
Retailers riled over business rates change
Retailers across the UK are bracing themselves for a dramatic fluctuation in their Business Rates bills when a new system for assessing rateable values is implemented in April 2010.
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News
Business rates rise deferred
Retail businesses have been given a temporary reprieve on their business rates thanks to a last-minute decision by the government.
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Opinion
ACS in action: Government must quickly defuse a business rates time bomb
Government must quickly defuse a business rates time bomb, says James Lowman
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News
Business rates to be next battle
Retailers are calling on the government to ease the "triple whammy" of a large increase in businesses rates, a revaluation of rates made at the height of the property market and the added threat of supplementary charges.
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Dear Jac
An appealing story about business rates
An update on the story of Ramy Patel, who was attempting to get a reduction on his business rates.
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News
Scots’ glee at business rates move
Retailers have welcomed the announcement from the Scottish Executive that it is to bring business rates in Scotland into line with those in England.