UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves is under growing pressure from restaurants, shops, cafes, hotels and music venues to rethink rise in business rates, as she prepares to announce a limited package of relief that will apply only to pubs, the Financial Times reports.
Mark Tanzer, chief executive of Abta, said the body believes any changes to business rates must benefit all high street retailers, including travel agents. “It cannot be right to recognise that proposed reforms do not go far enough and then only extend further help to certain sectors,” he said.
