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Andy Street: Business rates are broken

A government hemmed in by its own backbenchers will not reform this tax unprompted, and so the louder the voice of business becomes, the harder it is to ignore, and the closer we get to a country that rewards the people who invest in it.

Andy Street: Business rates are broken

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A government hemmed in by its own backbenchers will not reform this tax unprompted, and so the louder the voice of business becomes, the harder it is to ignore, and the closer we get to a country that...

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A government hemmed in by its own backbenchers will not reform this tax unprompted, and so the louder the voice of business becomes, the harder it is to ignore, and the closer we get to a country that rewards the people who invest in it.

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A government hemmed in by its own backbenchers will not reform this tax unprompted, and so the louder the voice of business becomes, the harder it is to ignore, and the closer we get to a country that rewards the people who invest in it.

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