Business rate retention: balancing the risk

  • Neil Amin Smith

Published on 1 March 2018

Allowing local authorities to retain business rates exposes them to risk if revenues fall. Neil Amin-Smith of the IFS considers how this risk might play out between county and district councils - and how it can be mitigated.

Allowing local authorities to retain business rates exposes them to risk if revenues fall. Neil Amin-Smith of the IFS considers how this risk might play out between county and district councils - and how it can be mitigated.