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23 Aug 19
Local government currently has no certainty over funding and must ensure political parties see giving it greater control over its finances as a manifesto issue, says Localis’ Jonathan...
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17 Aug 19
Labour has unveiled a five-point plan to help local authorities “revive” struggling high streets.
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19 Jun 19
Councils have warned that reforms to increase the frequency of business rates revaluations must be properly resourced and contain measures to manage the impact on appeals.
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6 Jun 19
Councils’ increasing reliance on business rates is a “20th century solution”, the housing, communities and local government committee has been told.
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22 Feb 19
An umbrella group has called for the government to delay its plans to increase business rate retention for English councils from 50% to 75%.
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19 Dec 18
London councils will continue to pilot business rates retention next year but at the lower rate of 75%, rather than the 100% they trialled in 2018-19, the draft local government settlement revealed...
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4 Dec 18
High streets are no longer the bustling community hubs they once were, but decline doesn’t have to be terminal, says Cathy Parker of the Institute of Place Management.
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7 Sep 18
Business rates are broken and deter companies from investing to boost productivity - abolishing them would bring benefits to the public sector as well as enterprise, argues Lib Dem Lord Fox.
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3 Sep 18
Abolishing business rates and taxing land values instead would benefit businesses in 90% of English local authority areas, a Liberal Democrat report has claimed.
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28 Aug 18
Councils are taking earlier enforcement action to collect unpaid business rates as they become increasingly reliant on this income, real estate advisors have claimed.
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26 Jul 18
The government will cover the £153m cost of negative revenue support grant next year, it has been revealed.
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25 Jul 18
The third phase of business rate retention pilots will go ahead with just a 75% retention and the ‘no detriment’ clause scrapped, the government has announced.
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23 Jul 18
The debate about local government finance needs to be broad and radical, the Local Government Information Unit has said.
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3 Jul 18
Town and county halls in England will face a funding black hole of almost £8bn by the middle of the next decade, local government leaders warned today.
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13 Jun 18
The business rates system must be reformed to protect councils against “unfair” appeals risk, council leaders have said today.
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2 May 18
Whitehall must provide certainty for councils to stop changes to business rates costing them ‘considerable sums’, according to local government groups.
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25 Apr 18
Councils should be allowed to keep cash from business rates increases as well as existing grants, a group of MPs has demanded.
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17 Apr 18
Andrew Hudson has been appointed to lead the review of the business rates system by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
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27 Mar 18
CIPFA’s Jo Pitt looks at the direction of travel for local government retention of business rates and what to expect over the coming months.
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1 Mar 18
Allowing local authorities to retain business rates exposes them to risk if revenues fall. Neil Amin-Smith of the IFS considers how this risk might play out between county and district councils - and...
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29 Sep 17
County councils face unique challenges and retaining 100% of business rates could widen their funding gap, the County Councils Network has warned.
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1 Sep 17
Bidding has started for local councils to take part in a second round of 100% business rate retention pilot schemes.
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22 Aug 17
Liability for business rates should be extended to private schools, universities and local authority arms-length operations, an independent review of non-domestic local taxation in Scotland has...
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31 Jul 17
Whitehall has called on software firms to provide updated programmes to local councils so they can grant new levels of business rate relief to small businesses.
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8 Mar 17
There were no big surprises in this Budget and little sense of any solutions to intractable policy problems. The chancellor should beware of trying to micromanage from the centre
23 Aug 19Local government currently has no certainty over funding and must ensure political parties see giving it greater control over its finances as a manifesto issue, says Localis’ Jonathan...
17 Aug 19Labour has unveiled a five-point plan to help local authorities “revive” struggling high streets.
19 Jun 19Councils have warned that reforms to increase the frequency of business rates revaluations must be properly resourced and contain measures to manage the impact on appeals.
19 Dec 18London councils will continue to pilot business rates retention next year but at the lower rate of 75%, rather than the 100% they trialled in 2018-19, the draft local government settlement revealed...
4 Dec 18High streets are no longer the bustling community hubs they once were, but decline doesn’t have to be terminal, says Cathy Parker of the Institute of Place Management.
3 Sep 18Abolishing business rates and taxing land values instead would benefit businesses in 90% of English local authority areas, a Liberal Democrat report has claimed.
28 Aug 18Councils are taking earlier enforcement action to collect unpaid business rates as they become increasingly reliant on this income, real estate advisors have claimed.
26 Jul 18The government will cover the £153m cost of negative revenue support grant next year, it has been revealed.
23 Jul 18The debate about local government finance needs to be broad and radical, the Local Government Information Unit has said.
1 Sep 17Bidding has started for local councils to take part in a second round of 100% business rate retention pilot schemes.
31 Jul 17Whitehall has called on software firms to provide updated programmes to local councils so they can grant new levels of business rate relief to small businesses.
8 Mar 17There were no big surprises in this Budget and little sense of any solutions to intractable policy problems. The chancellor should beware of trying to micromanage from the centre
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