Friday High Five: The week the high street got a lifeline, and Poundland got a deadline
It’s been one of those weeks where two stories, running side by side, seem to be having an argument with each other.
On Wednesday, Chancellor John Healey stood up to deliver his first Budget and told the Commons he was “raising taxes on gambling to support good growth on every high street”.
The headline measure for shops was a rise in the threshold for small business rates relief from £12,000 to £18,000. That takes an estimated 70,000 retail, hospitality and leisure businesses o... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
