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mortar and digital landscape.” BIRA member Monika Curry runs Bodenhams in Ludlow, Shropshire, with her husband Roger, whose family has owned the business for five generations. She commented: “Business rates are our biggest headache. Our rates increased from £18,500 to £24,000 as our basic rateable value almost doubled, which resulted in a 30% increase in the bill and it’s due to increase by another £2,000 next year. What is frustrating is that the money is not really going back into the town. It is being spent across the county.” BIRA believes that an allowance would mean simplification of the relief system. It would mean that there would be no need for a Small Business Rates Relief as there would be a standard application for all businesses across the country, as opposed to the complicated system at the moment, which varies from Council to Council and currently costs the Government £2.6 billion. The visit to the Houses of Parliament follows BIRA’s visit to Downing Street in August 2017, where representatives presented
Jimmy McLoughlin, special advisor at Number 10 with the first version of the proposed plan, which has been developed by BIRA’s Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee. Mr Hawkins said: “Today was a
very significant moment in business rates reform and to have such an audience has been extremely encouraging. It shows that BIRA’s proposed solution to the unfair tax is gaining traction and that the
Government is looking for a fair and simple solution, which is what we can offer. There is still work to be done and we won’t give up until independent retailers are on a level playing field.”
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