Rates Mitigation Schemes: Sweet charity?

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP | Property Law Journal | July 2013 #313
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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Case Round Up

Hogan Lovells | Property Law Journal | November 2012 #299
Paul Tonkin summarises recent case law Mortgagee’s losses on fraudulent sale Godiva Mortgages Ltd v Khan [2012] In this case, Godiva lent £321,750 to Mrs Khan in the belief that it would acquire a legal charge over a property that she was purchasing. In fact, it transpired that there was no purchase as the purported …

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Business Rates: Reducing the pain

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP | Property Law Journal | September 2012 #294
Martin Dawbney and Frances Edwards looks at the outcome of two recent decisions that will come as welcome relief to ratepayers ‘Following an exemption period of three months for most properties after the property becomes unoccupied, landowners now face the additional burden of having to pay business rates at the same rate as if the …

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