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Business as usual?

Serious concerns still remain over the logistics of business rates redistribution. Finance expert Frances Foster talks to Dan Peters about the pitfalls of pilots, the crucial question of ‘need’ and the future of SIGOMA’s campaign work.

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By Dan Peters | 10 August 2016

Frances Foster reacted with horror when people first started talking about business rates localisation.

Barnsley MBC, where she is finance director, and the others she represents in her role as treasurer of the special interest group of municipal authorities (SIGOMA), generate comparatively little in business rates.

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