Court rejects business rates mitigation scheme *

United Kingdom - May 14 2013
The High Court has today rejected arguments on behalf of Public Safety Charitable Trust Limited (PSCT) that it was entitled to charitable relief from…

Co-authors: Frances Edwards.

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Postponement of 2015 rating revaluation *

United Kingdom - October 18 2012
The Government has just announced that the usual five-yearly revaluation of all commercial properties in England will be postponed from 2015 to 2017. 

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Potential savings on business rates for businesses occupying more than one floor in multi-storey office blocks *

United Kingdom - July 17 2012
Businesses occupying more than one floor in a multi-storey building may now have the opportunity to save business rates.

Co-authors: Lucy Hallam-Eames.

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Empty rates mitigation schemes given a green light by the High Court *

United Kingdom - July 11 2012
The NonDomestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (England) Regulations 2008386 (the "2008 Regulations") came into force on 1 April 2008 and removed the relief that had previously been granted to landowners who were faced with empty properties

Co-authors: Frances Edwards.

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Local authority failure to notify the valuation officer can be "an irrelevancy" in respect of underlying liability *

United Kingdom - May 31 2011
In Secerno and others v Oxford Magistrates Court and Vale of White Horse District Council [2011] EWHC 1009 (Admin) the Administrative Court held that a failure by a local authority to supply information to the valuation officer, in accordance with a requirement in particular regulations, was irrelevant when Magistrates were considering the issue of a liability order in respect of unpaid business rates

Co-authors: Jasveer Randhawa, Nusrat Zar.

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