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BUSINESS RATES RELIEF 2022-2023 (AUTUMN BUDGET MEASURES)

Meeting: 24/01/2022 - Executive (Item 82)

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To consider a report of the Executive Member for Finance and Governance.

Minutes:

The Executive Member for Finance and Governance submitted a report which reminded Members that the Chancellor had announced at the Autumn Budget on 27 October 2021 that the Government would provide a package of business rates measures to support eligible retail, hospitality and leisure businesses in England occupying a qualifying property and an extension of the current Transitional Relief and Supporting Small Business schemes. As the measures were temporary there would be no change in legislation and therefore local authorities would be expected to use their discretionary relief powers to deliver the scheme. The cost of the scheme would be fully funded through a Section 31 grant.

 

          RESOLVED -

 

(1)      That the use of proposed relief schemes be approved as detailed in the report in line with the government guidance.

 

(2)      That the proposed eligibility criteria as detailed in the report be approved.