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David Phillips, associate director at IFS, gave this presentation to the Municipal Journals Future Forum conference (2017) on 30th March 2017. It sets our the findings from recent research on business rates, funded by the IFS Local Government Finance and Devolution Consortium, and looks ahead to some of the key decisions on the future operation of the local business rates retention system, currently being consulted on by the government.
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Associate Director
David is Head of Devolved and Local Government Finance. He also works on tax in developing countries as part of our TaxDev centre.
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- IFS
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Phillips, D. (2017). 'Business rates retention: latest IFS research and thoughts on the way ahead' [Presentation]. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/business-rates-retention-latest-ifs-research-and-thoughts-way-ahead (accessed: 28 March 2024).
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