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  • UK lost 6,000 store fronts due to covid and ‘crippling’ business rates

    Save the high street

    Britain has lost 6,000 storefronts in five years amid Covid and cost-of-living pressures and “crippling” business rates, according to figures. The overall vacancy rate increased to 13.9 per cent  across Britain in the second quarter of this year, a 0.1 percentage point drop on the first quarter but 0.1 points up on the same period [...]

  • Retail groups call for business rates reform to save Britain’s high streets

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    Retail and hospitality groups have called for urgent reform of business rates, which are contributing to shop closures and job losses. “Retail accounts for 5 per cent of the economy but pays more than one-fifth of business rates,” Helen Dickinson, British Retail Consortium (BRC) chief executive, said. “The overall industry tax take is unsustainably high [...]

  • Airports and power stations to be hit hardest by business rates changes

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    Airports, power stations and business headquarters are set to be hit hardest by property tax changes when new valuations come into force next week, according to research. Revenues from business rates – the property tax on commercial buildings – are expected to rise by £1.4 billion, or 4.9 per cent , to £29.9 billion when [...]

  • Firms face £300m paperwork bill in proposal to help save cash through business rates

    March 27, 2023

    Businesses across England could be saddled with bills for around £150 a year under new Government proposals intended to help them with their tax. A requirement for businesses to update the Government annually could cost a total of around £300 million a year, analysis by Gerald Eve, a real-estate advisory company, has found. The estimate [...]

  • Business charm offensive: Reeves discusses investment plans at meeting with Lloyds, Aviva, L&G and British Land

    March 14, 2023

    Labour’s business charm offensive is continuing as shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to discuss plans to boost investment. Keir Starmer’s Labour has positioned itself as the ‘party of business’ as it aims to exploit the Conservatives’ reputational hit following the economic chaos of Liz Truss’s calamitous mini-budget. Reeves will discuss plans to boost business [...]

  • Confidence in UK businesses to improve in 2023

    December 31, 2022

    Confidence in prospects for UK’s economy are set to improve in 2023, according to an IoD index. The Institute of Directors (IoD) Directors’ Economic Confidence Index measures business leader optimism in prospects for the UK economy. It rose to -58 in December, up from -64 in November with improvements in expectations for revenue, employment, investment [...]

  • Business rates: Thousands of businesses go bust whilst waiting for rebates

    July 25, 2022

    Thousands of business sites have foundered in while waiting for rebates over property taxes, according to new data. Research by real estate advisory firm Altus Group has showed that 3,165 business premises, including offices, factories, shops, pubs and restaurants, entered insolvency whilst they were awaiting the result of a business rates challenge. Business rates are [...]

  • Theo Paphitis: Dragons’ Den star says the high street is going nowhere and neither is he

    June 14, 2022

    Theo Paphitis is not in any hurry to hang up his boots. After decades running the show at companies from lingerie to stationery firms, one might be mistaken for thinking the Dragons’ Den star, retail titan and former Millwall chairman may be mulling a change of pace.  However, Paphitis tells City A.M. he has “a [...]

  • UK registers record of new businesses following “the great resignation”

    January 17, 2022

    The UK has registered a record high of new businesses following the Covid-induced “great resignation.” According to data from accountancy firm Hazlewoods, in the last 12 months 319,000 news businesses were created, most of them e-retailers or delivery firms. The number of retailers in Britain has jumped 15 per cent, from 295,000 to 339,000 while [...]

  • Dunelm criticised for ‘excessive’ £4m pay package for chief exec

    November 10, 2021

    Home furnishings retailer Dunelm is under pressure over a £4m pay package for its chief exec amid accusations that the deal is “excessive”.

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