Question follow-through · 45021
Business Rates: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2025 to Question 36094 on Business Rates: Tax Allowances, if she will consider a tapering system as part of the new multiplier arrangements.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 8 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2025 to Question 36094 on Business Rates: Tax Allowances, if she will consider a tapering system as part of the new multiplier arrangements.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
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28 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Autumn Budget 2024 announcements reflect the Government’s first steps to support the high street. We want to go further to modernise the business rates system, and so, we also published a Discussion Paper setting out priority areas for reform and invi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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