Senior local government figures have made a last-minute plea for the sector to unite ahead of next week’s 100% business rates consultation deadline.
Monday’s cut-off date – almost a year after then-chancellor George Osborne promised the sector would be able to retain all the rates it collects – marks the end of the first stage of what will be one of the biggest changes to local government in years.
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