Wikipedia says that the councils collect the rate than send it off to the government which than sends it back. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_rates_in_England_and_Wales
Support solar power in the developing world. http://www.everyclick.com/solaraid http://www.solar-aid.org/ ________________________________ From: Alexander Hilton <[email protected]> To: "mySociety public, general purpose discussion list" <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Sun, 2 May, 2010 14:43:32 Subject: Re: [mySociety:public] Local govt business rates data? Juliet My understanding is that business rates are nationally set. Local authorities are allowed to exempt a small number of businesses or offer new business discounts, that sort of thing. Charities don't pay. councils collect the rates but only for the governemnt, they don't go into the council funds Alex On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Juliet Samuel <[email protected]> wrote: > > >I have just spent a while looking for some stats on local authorities' >business tax rates ("non-domestic rates") for the last ten years. I want to >compare how this particular tax rate has changed in a particular area (say, >Morley) over the last ten years. The only things that come up are either >grouped into large regional data (England, Wales, London etc) or are data on >council tax rates or on collection rates, etc. So does anyone know where one >might find a list non-domestic rates by local authority for the past five or >ten or fifteen years? >> > >Thank you! > >Juliet > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >>Mailing list [email protected] >>Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >
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