We need a simpler system

By Sandra Cowley | 17 June 2015

The business rates retention scheme is complex, with its funding targets, top-ups, tariffs, levies, safety nets, backdated appeals, revaluations, resets, Section 31 grants and collection fund accounting.

Throw in a business rates pool and you have a technical accountant’s dream, but a chief finance officer’s nightmare.

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