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Councils benefit from business rates haul

Two councils have raked in three times more than they expected after using £125,820 of government funding to fight business rates fraud and evasion.

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By Dan Peters | 25 January 2018

Two councils have raked in three times more than they expected after using £125,820 of government funding to fight business rates fraud and evasion.

Boston BC and East Lindsey DC had forecast they would uncover £1.1m in under-assessed business rates between 2015 and 2018 but actually brought in an additional £3.3m between them.

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