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What will be the impact of moving business rates back under local authority control?

2016-06-02T05:46:00

Osborne podium

Source: AVID HARTLEY/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK

While strained at the best of times, relations between the property industry and local government hit a new low in the 1980s, when so-called ‘loony left’ councils hiked local business taxes to relieve the domestic rates burden on the households whose votes they relied upon.

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