Tag: business rates
Rates standing in the way of growth?
Fresh indicators place Scotland near the top of the ‘room for retail growth’ charts. Yet the continuing issue...
SGF welcomes retailer-friendly budget proposals
Scottish Grocers Federation has broadly welcomed several key measures announced in the Scottish government’s draft budget for 2017-2018....
Take c-stores out of business rates, urges SGF
The Scottish Grocers Federation has called for more small businesses – including convenience store retailers – to be...
Rates hikes ‘holding back’ retail industry
Business rates in Scotland are set to increase from Friday (1st April), as the main poundage rate rises...
SRC seeks rates reform as retail sales fall
The value of retail sales contracted in Scotland in the final quarter of 2015 and for last year...
Business unites to call for rates reform
In an open letter published in The Herald newspaper today (10th November), 41 firms and business representative organisations...
Change to business rates ‘missed opportunity’
The Scottish Retail Consortium has described the recent announcement by Deputy First Minister John Swinney that local authorities...
Business rates reform ‘vital’ says SRC
The Scottish Retail Consortium has unveiled plans for an overhaul of business taxation, in an attempt to concentrate...
Business rates ‘not fit for purpose’
As the Westminster Government announces plans to review business rates in England, the Scottish Retail Consortium has urged...
Call for Scottish business rates reforms
The Scottish Retail Consortium has called for the Scottish Government to act following the announcement of a review...