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