Rating Question Time 2020
We have a panel of leading practitioners to answer questions from the audience on a number of topical rating issues. This event will be followed by drinks and canapés to give time for valuable networking.
Start Date | Venue | Price | |
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16 January 2020 | Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, London |
Note: All prices are to be paid in GBP and are subject to VAT at the prevailing rate
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The Question Time will be chaired by Paul Sanderson, where members of the audience are invited to contribute comments and join in discussions. The evening provides an excellent up to date synopsis on current rating issues and culminates with a drink and canapé reception to allow informal debates and networking.
Speakers
- Paul Sanderson JP LLB (Hons) FRICS FIRRV, President, International Property Tax Institute
- Roger Messenger BSc FRICS FIRRV REV MCIArb Hon. CAAV MIPAV (HONS) RICS Registered Valuer, Senior Partner, Wilks Head & Eve
- Mark Higgin BSc (Hons) FRICS FIRRV, Member, The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber)
- Nick Cooper, Business Rates Revaluation Team Leader, Local Taxation Division, Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC)
- Martin Rodger QC, Deputy President, Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber)
- Gary Garland, President of the Valuation Tribunal for England
- Alistair Townsend FIRRV CMgr MCMI, Principal, Alistair Townsend, Consultant, Wilks Head & Eve, President of the IRRV
- Patrick Bond BSc FRICS Dip.Rating IRRV (Hons), Chairman of The Rating Diploma Holders' Section of the RICS; Visiting Lecturer, City University Business School
Programme
Questions and topics that will be covered include:
- There is a new Government. What are their rating policy priorities?
- Does the GPCR approach to coordination work and if so where and what lessons need to be learnt and changed to make it work?
- With 2021 Revaluation now only 15 months away, what do practitioners need to do to be prepared?
- There are continued calls for a fall in the multiplier and some suggest this should be funded by the introduction of a sales tax based on a percentage of turnover. Is this a practicable solution and if not why not?
- CVA Rents
- A recent VOA statistic says 100,740 checks have now been made by small businesses from the current list. Is the market now waking up to making appeals?
- English councils are due to receive £25bn from business rates this year. It is estimated that there will be £1.1bn losses from successful appeals. A 4% loss may be small, but it is not spread evenly. Just as there are winners and losers with changes to RV and payments on ratepayers, there will be some local authorities that will suffer a greater burden of loss of rates income. How will local government manage, and will Government step in to assist them?
- The draft UT Practice Directions have been
circulated for consultation. What is the purpose of the consultation and is
anything in the draft likely to be changed?
- How does the UT want the conduct and practices of
parties, their professional advisers and expert witnesses to alter as a result
of the new Practice Directions?
- The draft UT Practice Directions are proposing to
prohibit success related fees for expert witnesses. What are the
proposals, and what are the views of the panel?
- When are the new Practice Directions likely to go
live?
- These PDs are for the UT. Will there be an
expectation or actual adoption of the directions for Valuation Tribunal cases?
- 28 days for the submission of a full statement of
case is short for parties who did not have Counsel involved in the VT
case. Is this an impossible deadline to impose?