Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates

(asked on 2nd November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the effect of the staircase tax on small businesses.


Answered by
Margot James Portrait
Margot James
This question was answered on 7th November 2017

Ministers and officials have frequent discussions with their Treasury counterparts on a range of matters, including business rates.

My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has set out the government’s position on this issue, most recently in his evidence to the Treasury Committee on 11 October.

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