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Rates Mitigation Schemes: Sweet charity?
Business rates mitigation schemes are under increasing scrutiny from the courts. Martin Dawbney and Frances Edwards explain ‘A common mitigation scheme matches a company willing to store items in premises with a landlord with empty property.’ Business rates continue to make headlines with stories such as ‘Business rates have turned high streets into cash cows …
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- Kenya Aid Programme v Sheffield City Council [2013] EWHC 54
- Makro Properties Ltd v Nuneaton and Bedworth BC [2012] EWHC 2250 (Admin)
- Public Safety Charitable Trust v Milton Keynes Council [2013] EWHC 1237 (Admin)