Business rates information letter 6/2011
Business rates information letters are issued by the Department for Communities and Local Government at regular intervals throughout the year.
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This letter provides information on the Localism Bill which received Royal Assent on 15 November 2011. The Bill is now an Act of Parliament. The Act contains 4 business rates measures in clauses 68 to 71:
- ballot for imposition and certain variations of a business rate supplement
- non-domestic rates: discretionary relief
- small business rate relief
- cancellation of liability to backdated non-domestic rates