Business rates are “a poorly-designed tax which badly needs reform” – but ministers should not consider increasing rates on the most valuable properties, says the IEA’s Editorial and Research Fellow, Professor Len Shackleton.

Quoted by The Telegraph, Len warned that a rise in rates would fall on tenants rather than landlords once they are “locked into a contract”, placing “a far greater cost” on bricks and mortar firms.

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