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Provides guidance on planning for retail and other town centre uses.
Find out how SIA licensing applies to shopping centres and retail outlets.
How to minimise your risk, and what to do if there's a terrorist attack.
VAT and other taxes on shopping and services, including tax-free shopping, energy-saving equipment and mobility aids.
This guidance is intended to support billing authorities in administering the 2025/26 Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Business Rates Relief Scheme.
This guidance is intended to support billing authorities in administering the 2024/25 Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Business Rates Relief Scheme.
This page lists the locations and opening dates of temporary jobcentres.
The VOA wants to help customers provide the right information when making a Check, and the following focuses on how to do this for shops that are zoned for valuation purposes.
How the Valuation Office Agency calculates your rateable value for business rates.
Find a BFPO number, send mail to and from British forces personnel and their families
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