Grocers set for £550m tax reduction over next three years

It comes after more than half a million retail properties in England and Wales were revalued as part of a shake-up to the business rates system of property taxes.

Analysis of official government data by commercial property advisory firm Altus Group found grocery firms will benefit from a roughly 10% decline in their values as a result of the changes.

New rateable values, which will form the basis of business rates bills from April 1 2023 until March 31 2026, will now be based on data from 2021 after criticism from companies, including Tesco, that previous values were out of date.

As a result of the latest shake-up, larger supermarket stores will see their rateable values drop from £2.86 billion to £2.43 billion next year.

Altus estimates that grocers will save around £218.64 million next year on their largest format stores as a result.

This is expected to rise to around £686.78 million in lower taxes over the three years of the new cycle taking into account inflationary rises due in 2024/25 and 2025/26.

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