CLH News #229 October 2019

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OCTOBER 2019

Hospitality & On-Trade Face Business Rates Increase of £37m

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Business groups are urging chancellor Sajid Javid to abandon rate increases in the forthcoming Autumn Budget after it was confirmed they will jump by 1.7% next April. The business rates increase, based on the Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) figure for September, means beleaguered retailers, in particular the hospitality and licensed on-trade sector, face a total £137 million increase next year, the British Retail Consortium (BRC)have said. Real estate experts Altus Group, also say the increase in inflation will see business rates bills next year increasing by £536m across all businesses in England, and predicts that pubs will be hit with an additional £12.8m and restaurants and hotels will both face increases in bills of £9.7m and £14.4m respectively.

It comes after the government’s decision to shut down parliament meant a new law aimed at easing pressure on the struggling high street was scrapped.

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Dominic Curran, property policy adviser at the BRC, said: “The chancellor must take action on rates in the forthcoming budget and scrap ‘downwards transition’, which takes £1.3 billion from retailers and uses most of it to subsidise rates in other industries. Meanwhile, with the retail industry facing store closures and jobs losses, the government should freeze the impending business rates increase.”

The legislation aimed to ensure business rates bills for all commercial premises would be reassessed every three years, rather than the current five-year period. Earlier this year an investigation by Altus Group, following a freedom of information request revealed that councils have sent bailiffs to more than 78,000 businesses including pubs and restaurants across England that have struggled to pay their business rates in the year to the end of March. They were given power to enter properties, seize goods and sell them at public auction in order to settle their debts. Altus said around one in 16 of all business premises faced having goods seized by bailiffs last year, when stripping out those who receive small business rates relief.

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The current standard rate of tax for business rates in England rose to 50.4p on 1 April for 2019/20, the first time the tax rate for business rates in England has gone above 50%. When the national business rates system was introduced in 1990, the multiplier was set at 34.8p.

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