From Bristol to Birmingham, Manchester to Penzance, business rates need urgent re-assessment.
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The big take-away message from the Guardian is that the recent changes in the high street, although scant consolation for the one in 12...
david Tanswell
- Apr 23, 2019
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UK pubs hit hard by business rates
The Mirror reports that last year almost 1,000 pubs bit the dust, many owners blaming high business rates for their woes. The toll of 76...
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david Tanswell
- Apr 15, 2019
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The human cost of high business rates
In an excellent article Thisismoney describes, in human terms, what life is really like for Britain's struggling retailers, without whom...
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david Tanswell
- Apr 11, 2019
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How to reduce your business expenses without paperwork worries
MoneySavingExpert.com has produced an invaluable compendium of ways in which businesses, particularly independent retailers, may save...
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david Tanswell
- Apr 9, 2019
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Bill Grimsey is right about business rates
Bill Grimsey, former CEO of Wickes and Iceland, has been a consistent critic of business rates, and their unfair impact on the high...
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david Tanswell
- Apr 4, 2019
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What about the smaller high street businesses?
The Guardian's report on the ailing giants of the high street is an all too familiar tale of woe. We all regret the trading problems of...
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david Tanswell
- Mar 7, 2019
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Business rates are unjust, says Simply Business.
Simply Business is quite right to report on the "injustice" of business rates, based as they are on arbitrary property values, themselves...
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david Tanswell
- Mar 5, 2019
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Reducing the business rates "burden".
The Eastern Daily Press quotes Chancellor Philip Hammond's response to a Treasury Committee report that "business rates represent a high...
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david Tanswell
- Feb 28, 2019
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Popular high street businesses shut up shop
Few high street businesses are more useful than key cutters and dry cleaners. So when, after 25 years, a Greenock businessman, is...
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david Tanswell
- Feb 26, 2019
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Business rates unfair to rural areas
The Fermanagh Herald reports heated debate in the local Council chamber, over the vexed question of business rates. In particular, do...
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david Tanswell
- Feb 18, 2019
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Music Venues don't benefit from Chancellor's discount
IQ magazine reports that the Chancellor does not intend that music venues should benefit from the recently-announced discount on retail...
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david Tanswell
- Feb 12, 2019
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Problems of the High Street
The Daily Express reports on a partial rates relief, for two years, on business premises with a rateable value of £51,000 or under....
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david Tanswell
- Feb 11, 2019
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Winners and Losers in the High Street
After the 2018 Autumn Budget, the BBC reported that, despite some relief being proposed for (generally smaller) businesses, many would...
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david Tanswell
- Feb 7, 2019
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Business rates under the new Somerset West and Taunton Council : a ray of hope?
A recent article in the County Gazette lists a wide range of high street businesses - from art galleries to restaurants - which may...
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david Tanswell
- Feb 5, 2019
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HOW MAY YOUR BUSINESS BE AFFECTED BY BREXIT?
At midnight on March 29, 2019, Brexit negotiations will end, and the UK will leave the EU (barring time-limited extensions). Is YOUR...
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david Tanswell
- Dec 12, 2018
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Hospitality, retail and business rates
A common question posed to us by our retail and hospitality clients is if they will be applicable for the relief. If one company has more...
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