Rejected petition Save small towns from becoming empty due to ludicrous buisness rate hikes

The new increase that has been brought in on business rates is crippling small towns. I am the owner of a buisness in a small town in North Wales. My business rates have now increased £300 a month due to my new rateable value. The system is unfair.

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A shop with a lower rateable value can have sometimes free business rates. They could be selling thousands of pounds worth of items everyday. A premesis that is on the larger side may only be taking hundreds of
pounds a day and has to pay an astronomical business rate as their premesis is larger how is this fair, surely a business is a business and everyone should contribute which would lower the rates for all. Rates should be worked out on your Profit not your square meterage or takings.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/175433

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Date submitted 17 March 2017
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