Briefings and responses

From delivering new homes, to promoting economic growth or improving the health and life chances of the most vulnerable in our society, councils are the key to solving our biggest local and national challenges.

This call for evidence follows previous Transforming Business Rates papers. There are a number of key summary points that are important to make including a system that raises sufficient resources for local priorities, adhere to the principles of sufficiency and transparency, compliance with, and avoidance of, business rates and property continues to provide a good basis for a local tax on business.