'Cut business rates to help us cope with Brexit': Key groups send urgent plea to Chancellor from 100,000 UK firms

Companies are offering to ringfence the money they save from any reduction in business rates and then to reinvest it in their firms. 


They want the date for the introduction of planned reforms to the rates system - due in 2020 - to be brought forward. The companies also want many firms to be relieved of the obligation to pay business rates altogether and they are calling for the whole system to be simplified.