Business Rate Relief

EDM number 1164 in 2008-09, proposed by Mark Oaten on 24/03/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Business support.

That this House notes with concern that businesses across the country are being notified of steep increases to their business rates; understands that this is because the 2005 to 2009 business rate scheme is the first under which no transitional relief will be available during the last year of its cycle; recognises that many businesses will find any rate increases incredibly hard to afford; and calls on the Government to extend transitional business relief for two years to help small and medium-sized enterprises weather the economic recession.

This motion has been signed by a total of 46 MPs.