Yesterday, the communities and local government minister, Sajid Javid, made a Commons statement on business rates. He defended the changes in rateable values being introduced on 1 April. These rises…
A few years back, the government of the day spotted a banana skin ahead. A routine reassessment of rateable values due in 2015 would lead to some businesses paying a…
HSBC, one of the top ten global banks, has been closing branches for some time. Yesterday, it announced that 62 more high street banks would close, including its branch in…
The Times has run a series of articles highlighting the harm that rises in rateable values and business rates will cause rural businesses. Yesterday, the newspaper had a first page…
The Budgens store in central Ludlow is to close less than a year after it opened in place of the Co-op. Last week, I launched an online poll. It asked…
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