business rates Articles

Philip Hammond's devastating business rate hikes should put to bed the myth that the Tories are the party of small businesses, argues Ibrahim Dogus The news of catastrophic business rate hikes should put to bed once and for all the myth that the Tory party is somehow...

Labour can become the champion of Britain's small and medium-sized businesses by radically reforming the way that SMEs are taxed, writes Fiona Dent The merciless shrinking of the public sector, austerity and the downward pressure on wages and secure working conditions...

Labour must defend small and medium-sized businesses from hikes in business rates, argues Ibrahim Dogus Small businesses in London are to be further burdened with a new hike in business rates. This is going to be a massive blow to the capital’s small businesses,...

Local government is entering a new world —The Tories have been fundamentally changing the roles and powers of local government since 2010. But perhaps the biggest change is still to come: by 2020 local government will be funded not by grants but by business rates....