Legal & Professional

The government’s business rate devolution reforms raise more questions than answers

By 2016-07-01T00:17:00

George Osborne

Source: Alamy/Chris Bull

The government’s plans to fully devolve business rate collection and retention to local authorities, announced in autumn last year, contain more holes than a slab of freshly pasteurised Swiss cheese and could cause the most almighty stink if implemented in their current form.

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