Jerry Schurder
- Opinion
Comment: How will Osborne’s business rates review impact retailers?
The Chancellor’s business rates announcement could be an easy way of appearing to be addressing the issue without actually having to do anything.
- Opinion
Comment: The BRC's new approach to business rates is refreshing
Retailers might be surprised by the BRC’s decision, revealed today, to review its approach to business rates and abandon its calls, made repeatedly over recent years, for a freeze in business rates.
- Opinion
Comment: Government backtracks on rationale for rate revaluation delay
The Government has had to backtrack on its claimed justification for the rate revaluation delay as we at Gerald Eve had predicted.
- Opinion
Comment: Postponement of rates revaluation piles more pain on retailers
For the second time in three days, the Government has put a rates-shaped hole in retailers’ hopes that the business climate might be getting that little bit easier.