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BUSINESS RATES
Central government needs to stand back
By Jonathan Carr-West | 30 September 2020
Dr Jonathan Carr-West asks if anyone has any sense of a sustained strategic focus on tackling the...
FINANCE
Future Forum: Business rates retention is doomed
By Dan Peters | 24 September 2020
Moves to fund local government using the proceeds from business rates are ‘doomed,’ according to ...
BUSINESS RATES
Counting the hidden costs of COVID-19
By Chris Buss | 23 September 2020
There are a host of hidden costs from COVID-19 that will creep out of the woodwork over time to i...
WHITEHALL
Spending Review will 'fail to offer long-term view' for sector
By Dan Peters | 22 September 2020
This year’s Spending Review will fail to offer a long-term view for local government, The MJ unde...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
How councils can reshape the future of high streets
By Leena Gillespie | 18 September 2020
Local authorities—many of whom are landlords — now have a unique opportunity to regenerate and t...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
The business rates system needs to go
By Sir Stephen Houghton | 18 September 2020
Today is the deadline for the call for evidence for the Treasury’s review of business rates. Rat...
FINANCE
Before reorganisation we need a clear view of the sector's core purpose
By Abdool Kara | 16 September 2020
How local government 'can sensibly be reorganised without a clear view of its core purpose (will ...
FINANCE
Retail chiefs call for more rate relief as Sunak considers tax hikes
By Michael Burton | 01 September 2020
Retail chiefs have urged Chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend business rate relief just as he plans t...
FINANCE
Taxing questions on a flawed system
By Martin Ford | 30 August 2020
The Treasury announced a call for evidence on business rates. Martin Ford speaks to experts about...
BUSINESS
Business rate revaluation postponed for two years
By Michael Burton | 22 July 2020
Ministers have postponed a revaluation of business rates until April 2023 and issued consultation...
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