All aboard for the joys of hereditament courtesy Alan Bradford VOA
All that is is a unit af rateing assessment, RV is the annual value of the hereditament
Valuation date – 2 years before a list goes live – 1 April 2008 for 1 April 2010 list
Rateable Occupier – seems to be the problem area [...]
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BSG-VOA Fibre Rates Workshop
Taxing Times Ahead for Rural Communities?
There follows an invitation FibreStream recently accepted to consult with the VOA as regards the potential imposition of business rates to WiFi and WiMAX networks.
As previously highlighted, this development threatens particularly to discriminate against rural communities by significantly impacting the costs and therefore viability of delivering broadband services to local residents and businesses, as the [...]
Digital Britain – DoA Via VOA?
It looks like Digital Britain is now facing an even greater struggle and if implemented the VOA business rates on wireless networks may well cause UK PLC to slide backwards and for us to see a situation whereby thousands of particularly rural broadband customers are cut off as their local grassroots suppliers are forced out [...]
Latter Day Window Tax
FAO BSG Members who are meeting with VOA next week:
Back in 1696, the taxing “powers that be” had a great idea or so they thought
- everyone with any money has windows in their homes so let’s tax that glass!!
- on the surface, the idea has merit (from a tax collectors point of view anyway) in [...]