PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates (2 November 2017)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect of the staircase tax on small businesses.

Asked by:
Mr Toby Perkins (Labour)

Answer

The Government is aware of the change in the Valuation Office Agency’s approach to assessing units within buildings in multiple occupation, following the Supreme Court judgement in the Mazars v Woolway case. The Government is considering the implications of this judgement.


Answered by:
Mr Marcus Jones (Conservative)
7 November 2017

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