Retail and hospitality chiefs make business rates plea

Houses of parliament

Leaders of more than 200 businesses have written to chancellor John Healey ahead of the Budget calling for fundamental reform of business rates.

They urged a root and branch reform of the rates system “to level the playing field between online and bricks-and-mortar businesses, enabling a cut in bills of over a third for high streets.”

 

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