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Influential MPs call for government to rethink broken business rates

Parliament’s influential Treasury Select Committee has called on the government to examine alternatives to the broken business rates system.

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November 01, 2019

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MPs say that the government should examine alternatives to the current system in time for the chancellor’s Spring Statement 2020.

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