Business Rates

Debenhams to ask for 50% cut in business rates bills

Embattled department store Debenhams has reportedly planning to ask 30 local authorities to accept a 50% reduction in its business…

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UK retail sector bounces back in March

In the three months to March 2019, the quantity bought in retail sales increased by 1.6% compared with the previous…

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Shopping centre landlords offer free space to retailers

Revo, the organisation that represents the retail community, has launched a new competition to give budding retail entrepreneurs free space…

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Ann Summers calls in advisers after £3.3m loss

Lingerie retailer, Ann Summers, has announced it has appointed a property adviser in order to help with rent reductions, after…

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Securing the future of the UK high street

UK High Streets have reached a ‘tipping point’. That was the view of a recently published parliamentary inquiry report on…

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Shops, pubs and restaurants to get £500m tax reprieve

Small firms on England’s embattled high streets are set to share in half a billion pounds worth of tax cuts…

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Retailers left waiting for rates discounts as deadline approaches

Businesses in England were promised millions of pounds in support by the chancellor last October but, less than two weeks…

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Digital Services Tax extended to include 2% ‘Amazon tax’

High streets government minister, Jake Berry, has promised to extend the Digital Services Tax to include a “2% tax on…

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Business rates appeals drop under ‘complicated’ system

Businesses are struggling with the new ‘check challenge appeal’ (CCA) business rates appeals system, according to rating experts at Colliers…

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MPs call for business rates reform to save high street

The housing, communities and local government committee has said “dated policies” and an “unfair tax regime” needed reforming to allow…

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