Jan 2017

1. MUA Rates Update – PRA Market Review

   4 January, 2017

   MUA’s Paul Sewell has written an article for the PRA which can be read here… Read more

2. Revaluation 2017

   4 January, 2017

    

   We thought these two articles might be interesting to readers – what the Telegraph is saying on behalf of business; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/28/theresa-may-urged-reconsider-penal-rises-business-rates-companies/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/12/29/high-business-rates-have-hit-expansion-plans-jeweller-says/ Without doubt, Britain is the most highly taxed country in the Western World in terms of property taxes. Our view at MUA remains that this is the fundamental problem for property occupiers in totality, rather than timing of Revaluation or precise Transitional Relief rules. It must be remembered that Transitional Relief is … Read more