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Forbes: Business rates discussion core to sector future

The discussion about how 100% business rates retention will work is fundamental to the future of the entire sector, the senior vice-president of the Local Government Association (LGA) has insisted.

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By Dan Peters | 07 July 2016

The discussion about how 100% business rates retention will work is fundamental to the future of the entire sector, the senior vice-president of the Local Government Association (LGA) has insisted. 

Nick Forbes argued the change was ‘not just about local government finance but what local government is for'.

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