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Burnham’s tax plan to save Britain’s high street ‘could cost £880m a year’

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Henry Saker-Clark
Burnham’s tax plan to save Britain’s high street ‘could cost £880m a year’
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Former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has proposed a tax reform plan to support small high street businesses by increasing the threshold for business rates relief. The policy, which could cost £880 million annually, would be funded by higher property taxes on large online retailers like Amazon.

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The policy could exempt more than 140,000 additional small high street firms from paying business rates altogether

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