Written Question·Treasury·UIN 40774

Business Rates

Tabled: 24 March 2025
Answered: 1 April 2025

Question

Joe Robertson

ConservativeIsle of Wight East

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will ensure that the proposed higher business rates multiplier for properties with a rateable value of £500,000 or more is index-linked.

Answer

James Murray
The Government intends to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure properties, with rateable values below £500,000, from 2026-27. This tax cut must be sustainably funded, and so the Government intends to apply a higher ra...

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