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Land Banking: Business Rates

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to replace Business Rates with a Land Value Tax collected by local authorities to disincentivise land banking by developers.

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 26 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 3 Mar 2025
Answer: 7 Mar 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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26 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to replace Business Rates with a Land Value Tax collected by local authorities to disincentivise land banking by developers.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Mar 2025
Answer published
We are creating a fairer business rates system that protects the high street, supports investment, and is fit for the 21st century. At the Autumn Budget, we published a Discussion Paper setting out priority areas for reform and invites stakeholders to hav...

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