Warning over councils' business rates
Warning over councils' business rates
- 2000
- Financial Times 20 September 2000, 4(1) Telegraph 25 September 2000, 29(2) .
Government faces opposition to green paper proposals for local authorities to levy supplementary business rates. Confederation of British Industry and British Chambers of Commerce brand it anti-competitive, and it is also described as a 'stealth tax'.
LOCAL AUTHORITIES
BUSINESS RATES
LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE
LOCAL TAXATION
SUPPLEMENTARY RATES
CBI
BRITISH CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE
GREEN PAPER
Government faces opposition to green paper proposals for local authorities to levy supplementary business rates. Confederation of British Industry and British Chambers of Commerce brand it anti-competitive, and it is also described as a 'stealth tax'.
LOCAL AUTHORITIES
BUSINESS RATES
LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE
LOCAL TAXATION
SUPPLEMENTARY RATES
CBI
BRITISH CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE
GREEN PAPER