The 20th National Rating Day - Session 3

Watch the third and final virtual seminar of The 20th National Rating Day. In this recording you will hear sessions which will look at Rating Legislation and Rating in a Tax Context. 

Module Duration: 2 hours 1 minutes

Areas covered

Welcome and Introduction from the Conference Chairman - Tim Johnson

Rating Legislation and Rating in A Tax Context

Update and Review of Rating Policy - Alex Lim

• Past reviews have we had in the past 10 years, what makes this last year potentially different?
• The report from the Treasury Select committee
• The Scottish Barclay Review and its implementation 
• Welsh divergence
• Election promises from manifesto to reality?
• Changes to NNDR and Government responses to CV19

Business Rates in the Tax Context - John Boulton

• HMRC stats, other material in the public domain
• How does rating fill the treasury pot and its contribution to the overall tax base
• The impact of tax of business
• The Government response to COVID 19, from a business perspective.
• What does business need now?
• COVID-19 – Businesses route to recovery, what does business need in in April 2021.  How business rates can help or hinder.
  

HM Treasury Fundamental Review of Business Rates: Is this the real thing? - Josh Myerson

Question and Answers 

Speakers

• Tim Johnson, Senior Director, CBRE
• Alex Lim, Team Leader, Business Rate Tax Policy, MHCLG
• John Boulton, Manager, Technical Strategy, Executive, ICAEW (The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)
• Josh Myerson MRICS Dip.Rating, Partner and Head of Rating, Montagu Evans LLP; Vice President, The Rating Surveyors' Association