Issue - meetings
Business Rates - Retail Discount
Meeting: 06/02/2019 - Cabinet (Item 84)
84 Business Rates - Retail Discount 
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To consider the report of the Cabinet Member for Performance and Resources that proposes a discount scheme commensurate with the Government Budget announcement of October 2018 for retail discounts on business rates.
Additional documents:
- Appendix A Retail Discount Local Scheme Gloucester City Council 2019-20 2020-21, item 84
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- Appendix B Business Rates Retail Discount Guidance, item 84
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- Appendix C Section 47 Local Government Finance Act 1988, item 84
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- Appendix D Section 31 Local Government Act 2003, item 84
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Decision:
RESOLVED that the Business Rates Retail Discount scheme (attached at appendix A of the report) be the approved scheme for Gloucester City for 2019/20 and 2020/21.
Minutes:
Cabinet considered the report of the Cabinet Member for Performance and Resources that proposed a discount scheme commensurate with the Government Budget announcement of October 2018 for retail discounts on business rates.
The Cabinet Member for Performance and Resources highlighted the key features of the scheme. The Cabinet Member for Environment welcomed the assistance for small businesses in the current challenging retail environment. The Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Economy commented that while this scheme addressed one issue in the retail sector, Central Government needed to look at wider issues such as whether business rates were a barrier to empty properties being let.
RESOLVED that the Business Rates Retail Discount scheme (attached at appendix A of the report) be the approved scheme for Gloucester City for 2019/20 and 2020/21.