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Concerns over accuracy of government’s business rates calculations

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The government has come under pressure to review its business rates pooling calculations after concerns were raised over the accuracy of the assumptions that underpin it.

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The Institute for Fiscal Studies said the government’s approach to estimating the distribution of business rates revenues in 2025–26 was likely to be “systematically

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