BPF response: technical consultation on business rates

What: The BPF has responded to a Government consultation on changes to the business rates system, including measures to enable more frequent revaluations, a new improvement relief and on support for investment in green plant and machinery.

Our View: We welcome the move to a cycle of three-yearly revaluations, but call for a number of changes to the Government’s proposals to ensure that the new duty on ratepayers is reasonable and proportionate. This includes longer periods for providing information to the VOA and in which to make Challenges. We also set out concerns about the proposed improvement relief and call on Ministers to be more ambitious in greening the business rates system.