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SUPPLIED Many Tararua farmers were shocked to receive rates indication letters forecasting up to 40 per cent increases when the district council’s draft long term plan slated a 9 per cent rural rates increase for the 2021/2022 year. Farmers are irate over massive rates increases, calling for adjustments and reconsideration of the ‘broken system’ heavily linking their rates bill to rapidly rising property values. The Tararua District Council heard submissions on its draft 2021-2031 Long Term Plan this week, bringing consultation to an end before public opinion was taken into considerati...

UK-based SME financing provider Bibby Financial Services (BFS) says it has established a £300mn pandemic recovery fund for new and existing customers as coronavirus lockdown restrictions in the UK begin to ease.   The company says the fund will target businesses trading on credit terms who are seeking funding to grow as the economy reopens. SMEs will be able to access the funds through BFS invoice finance products such as trade and export finance variants, factoring, invoice discounting and construction finance.    It says it expects most of the fund to be directed toward SMEs in the ...