Exempt empty commercial properties from business rates due to Covid-19

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Exempt empty commercial properties from business rates due to Covid-19

Petition Details

The Government should exempt empty commercial properties from business rates during and after the Covid-19 outbreak. Empty rates were originally brought in to ensure that empty properties are returned to economic use

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We believe they are currently being utilised as nothing more than a revenue raising tool by local authorities, at a time when many commercial property holders are unable to complete work on properties or put them on the market. This is to the detriment of economic regeneration.

Paying empty rates restricts the availability of funding to pay tradesmen and other workers, and in fact works against the principle of their purpose - bringing property back into economic use.

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