Policy paper

Local government resource review: technical papers

Technical papers explaining how the government's proposed business rates retention scheme would work.

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Applies to England

Documents

Local government resource review: proposals for business rates retention: technical papers – an overview

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Local government resource review: proposals for business rates retention: technical paper 1 - establishing the baseline

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Local government resource review: proposals for business rates retention: technical paper 2 - measuring business rates

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Local government resource review: proposals for business rates retention: technical paper 3 - non-billing authorities

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Local government resource review: proposals for business rates retention: technical paper 4 - business rates administration

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Local government resource review: proposals for business rates retention: technical paper 5 - tariff, top up and levy options

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Local government resource review: proposals for business rates retention: technical paper 6 - technical paper 6 - volatility

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Local government resource review: proposals for business rates retention: technical paper 7 - revaluation and transition

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Local government resource review: proposals for business rates retention: technical paper 8 - renewable energy

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Details

On 18 July 2011, the Department of Communities and Local Government published a consultation paper, Local government resource review: proposals for business rates retention, setting out proposals for a rates retention scheme to replace the current local government finance system.

The overview provides a technical summary of how the scheme would work. Various elements of the scheme are discussed in detail in the 8 technical papers.

An interactive calculator can be found on the pooling prospectus page.

Published 19 August 2011