Rejected petition Stop the whole of the NHS, including GP’s surgeries, paying business rates.

The NHS is not a business; it is a charity and as such should not be paying business rates as imposed by the government which, incidentally, is being assessed and possibly raised.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/185716

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Date submitted 17 February 2017
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