Posts tagged "Business Rates"
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18 October 2024 Policy

How to reform property tax

Property taxes are probably more in need of reform than any other area of UK tax. We have three taxes on property: stamp duty (SDLT), council tax and business rates. They’re bad taxes: they’re unpopular, inequitable, and they hold back growth. There is a way to change this, and tax land in a way that […]
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22 August 2024 Analysis • Policy

Why Rachel Reeves should stop snails avoiding business rates

BBC Merseyside is reporting on a ludicrous attempt to avoid business rates using snails. It is so stupid that I cannot do justice to it – please read the story (radio version here). This is, however, just one of many stupid schemes to avoid business rates. And the bizarre thing is that historically they have […]

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