Today in the workshop .....

[harveyp6]

Last one out turn off the lights.
Carry on like this and there won't be anything left.

 

[Nick DV]

Well at least another U-turn gives the pubs a discount on their rates There may be hope for businesses yet

 

[m_c]

All this talk of business rates reminds me of an instructor I had years ago.
He owned a garage, and the council turned up and revalued the property. The result was his rates doubled, which he was willing to tolerate as he thought it was probably accurate and that the rates had been a bit cheap.

The council then decided they were going to backdate the rates for a number of years (was 5 or 10 years).
The result was he closed the garage, and sold it to a developer so the council ended up with nothing from him.

 

[Cato]

All this talk of business rates reminds me of an instructor I had years ago.
He owned a garage, and the council turned up and revalued the property. The result was his rates doubled, which he was willing to tolerate as he thought it was probably accurate and that the rates had been a bit cheap.

The council then decided they were going to backdate the rates for a number of years (was 5 or 10 years).
The result was he closed the garage, and sold it to a developer so the council ended up with nothing from him.

I wonder how many councillors were shareholders in the developer? Or how fat the brown envelope was?

 

[Dapph2]

Council employees & Councilors are not usually known for their expertise or experiences of working outside the council or local authority spheres . As a result commercially vital decisions that would benefit the coffers and locality are not found out till it is far too late to rectify the damage

 

[roblane65]

Council employees & Councilors are not usually known for their expertise or experiences of working outside the council or local authority spheres . As a result commercially vital decisions that would benefit the coffers and locality are not found out till it is far too late to rectify the damage

they are no more than trainee wannbe's and can't see past their nose or the policies theyv'e been brain washed with which results in no regard for reality , at the end of the day the desire is to make money than they squander !

 

[Blobber]

Well that's nice then. I'll just pull another £7,000 a year (£580 a month) out of thin air then shall I?
I'll have to run the numbers and have a hard think about carrying on the business as this increase on top of all the others may well turn out to be the final straw.

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That's outrageous, how do they expect a small business to find that sort of money

 

[More Amps]

That's outrageous, how do they expect a small business to find that sort of money

Simple....in their world, small businesses would just increase their charges. Sadly they don't appreciate that one of the fundamental principles of economics is that when the price rises, demand falls!

 

[harveyp6]

Well at least another U-turn gives the pubs a discount on their rates There may be hope for businesses yet

This all sounds so familiar. Make rash policy decisions, and introduce them without any research whatsoever. I know pubs have been complaining about this for a while, (quite rightly so, even banning labour MPs from their pubs), but it's not only pubs, it's all small businesses, eg Cato, who just can't absorb those sort of rises in expenses.
If you price it up, any extra income from these increase in rates, will be eaten up by the massive increases of benefits that need to be paid out to all those put out of work.
This lot haven't got a clue.

 

[roblane65]

That's outrageous, how do they expect a small business to find that sort of money

Simple because they don't care and they don't answer to anyone ! their main aim is how to raise more money = businesses make money charge them more . This is pretty much across the board anything for business is charged higher than domestic quite sad really in business your pretty much an unpaid tax collector