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Business rates appeals soar as property experts slam government's ban on Covid-19 review requests Business rates appeals have soared since the beginning of the pandemic, with experts branding the government’s decision to block reconsiderations based on Covid-19 as a “material change of circumstance” as a “disgrace”. The latest figures showed that, between 1 April last year and the end of March 2021, 409,430 checks had been lodged by firms, launching the first stage of the appeals process, according to Colliers data. Also Read: Business rates appeals soar as property...

In the Budget on 3 March, chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the current 100% business rates holiday for the retail and hospitality sector will be extended to the end of June, and will then be discounted for the remaining nine months of the financial year by two thirds, up to a value of £2m for closed businesses. It means that many medium and large-sized retailers, which typically pay well above £2m in business rates, will be slapped with hefty bills. Several fashion retailers did not realise the £2m cap was being placed on businesses as a whole, instead of per premises. “Implementing the ...

Credit Maria Jarzyna Driving up from his former hometown of Columbus, OH (he now lives in Brooklyn), the top-flight jazz pianist Aaron Diehl will present a livestreamed concert from the Epic Center in Kalamazoo at 7:30 Friday, Apr 9, with bassist John Webber and drummer Aaron Kimmel. In a conversation with Cara Lieurance, Diehl talks about his adjustment to a pandemic year which hit just has his latest album,  The Vagabond, was released. It's given him time to reflect on life's priorities. Tonight's concert for The Gilmore was rescheduled from a planned appearance at the 2020 Gilmore Keyboar...

The hospitality and retail sectors said more could be done to encourage consumers back to the high street after lockdown.

Drapers investigates: Business rates – make or break for the high street As the industry awaits preliminary conclusions to the government’s review of business rates in England, Drapers' Reset Fashion Retail campaign shows why the broken system needs fixing now “before it is too late”. “It has been almost a year since the business rates payment holiday was introduced, but in those 365 or so days nothing has been done to reform the archaic system,” says Derihon Coquard, head of property at Yours Clothing, which has 150 stores across the UK, Ireland and Germany. “Retailers are stil...