Rating Talking Heads: July
Mitigating Empty Rates
This event runs as an informal discussion with a small panel of leading and informed practitioners extracting the nuances from the monthly topic. They discuss practical issues that arise, with participants in the meeting being encouraged to listen, join in, ask questions and share comments
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22 July 2021 | Virtual Monthly Discussion |
Note: All prices are to be paid in GBP and are subject to VAT at the prevailing rate
July's Discussion: Mitigating Empty Rates
The Supreme Court handed down its judgment on Hurstwood Properties (A) Ltd and others (Respondents) v Rossendale Borough Council and another (Appellants) [2021] UKSC 16 on Friday 14 May 2021. The High Court has also issued a judgment in The Queen (on the application of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on behalf of Public Health England) v Harlow District Council [2021] EWHC 909 that includes two important annexes. What do these decisions mean to ratepayers and their advisors. What do they mean to local authorities?
Meanwhile, other notable cases continue their paths through the courts – including the Ludgate House case regarding property guardians. This may also alter the picture.
- What does
the Supreme Court judgment in Rossendale mean for “managed insolvency”
arrangements?
- What guidance
can be taken from the High Court judgment in Public Health England in
respect of intermittent occupation schemes?
- What is the current position for
property guardians’ schemes?
- What are
the risks of mitigation schemes being treated as “shams” as in Isle
Investments Ltd v Leeds City Council [2021]?
- How about
other mitigation strategies – which of these can still
succeed?
- Potential changes are on the way in
both England and Wales - what are
the implications of these?
July's Talking Heads
- Josh Myerson FRICS Dip.Rating IRRV (Hons), Partner and Head of Rating, Montagu Evans LLP; Previous Past President, The Rating Surveyors' Association
- Blake Penfold BSc FRICS MCIArb, Business Rates Consultant, Blake Penfold Consultancy
- Alistair Townsend FIRRV CMgr MCMI, Principal, Alistair Townsend, Consultant, Wilks Head & Eve, President of the IRRV
- Victoria Boateng, Senior Director - Property Tax Group, CBRE Ltd