Tag: business rates
MSPs step back from brink on Business Rates
The Scottish Parliament has voted to retain the Uniform Business Rate and the Small Business Bonus. An amendment...
Save the Uniform Business Rate, says SRC
The headway being made on rates reform is at risk if MSPs remove control over the setting of...
Don’t let councils set business rates, trade groups tell Finance Secretary
Representatives of three trade associations – the Scottish Retail Consortium, FSB Scotland and UKHospitality – met with Finance...
SRC slams proposed regional rates amendment
Green Party MSP Andy Wightman has proposed an amendment to the Non-Domestic Rates Bill currently before the Scottish...
RVM rates relief revealed
Retailers required to accept the return of single-use drinks containers could qualify for rates relief, First Minister Nicola...
MSPs back business rates reform
Holyrood’s Local Government and Communities Committee has supported a Bill which proposes the first major reform of business...
Retailers urge Chancellor to fix business rates
The bosses of over 50 major retailers, including Scotmid CEO John Brodie, have united to demand the Government...
Government confirms extent of growing rates burden
New official figures have revealed that the headline poundage/tax rate for business rates has reached its highest point...
Business unites against proposed rates levy
Twenty-one of the country’s leading business organisations have written a joint letter to Scottish Finance Secretary, Derek Mackay...
SRC seeks two-year freeze on headline poundage rate
The latest ONS Consumer Price Index (CPI) figure, published today (September 19), has revealed that inflation in August...