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David Phillips, associate director at IFS, gave this presentation to the Municipal Journals Future Forum conference (2017) on 30th March 2017. It sets our the findings from recent research on business rates, funded by the IFS Local Government Finance and Devolution Consortium, and looks ahead to some of the key decisions on the future operation of the local business rates retention system, currently being consulted on by the government.

 

    Authors

    David Phillips
    David Phillips

    Associate Director

    David is Head of Devolved and Local Government Finance. He also works on tax in developing countries as part of our TaxDev centre.

    Presentation details

    DOI
    10.1920/ps.ifs.2024.0546
    Publisher
    IFS

    Suggested citation

    Phillips, D. (2017). 'Business rates retention: latest IFS research and thoughts on the way ahead' [Presentation]. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/business-rates-retention-latest-ifs-research-and-thoughts-way-ahead (accessed: 29 April 2025).

    Grant

    Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), 2015-2020

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