Business Rates

The amount paid out by the Insolvency Service in 2020 hit a 10-year high (Ian Nicholson/PA)

Insolvency Service payouts hit 10-year high of £453m in 2020

March 1, 2021

A sign for Her Majesty’s Treasury (Chris Ratcliffe/PA)

Treasury pushes business rates review back until autumn

February 19, 2021

Next chief executive Lord Simon Wolfson is calling for a warehouse tax to allow business rates to be cut (Next/PA)

Next boss Lord Wolfson calls for higher business rates on warehouses

February 18, 2021

Chancellor Rishi Sunak will set out the next Budget on March 3 {Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Sunak urges MPs to wait until Budget to learn of next Covid-19 support measures

January 26, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has hit the high street hard (Mike Egerton/PA)

Tory MP calls for business rates to be scrapped and replaced by higher VAT

January 12, 2021

The details mean the UK has seen the highest property taxes in six of the last 10 years, based on OECD data (Johnny Green / PA)

UK tops world rankings for highest property taxes

December 7, 2020

B&Q owner Kingfisher is to pay back millions in business rates relief (Paul Faith/PA)

B&Q owner to waive business rates relief on £130m bill

December 7, 2020

Lidl has agreed to repay business rates relief in line with other supermarkets (Lidl/PA)

Lidl agrees to hand back £100m saved in business rates relief

December 4, 2020

Pets At Home is the latest retailer to agree to repay business rates savings (Mike Egerton.PA)

Pets At Home becomes latest essential retailer to hand back rates savings

December 4, 2020

Asda said it will return over £340 million it saved from the rates holiday (Nick Ansell/PA)

Asda and B&M to hand back rates relief as retailers return almost £2bn

December 3, 2020

Asda said it had ‘sought to do the right thing’ throughout the pandemic (Rui Vieira/PA)

Asda to hand back £340m in rates relief after rivals return over £1bn

December 3, 2020