Business rates: My bill went from £560 to £7,760

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Business rates: 'We might as well hand back the keys'

He says Public, a cosy underground cocktail bar, now has the same rateable value as another one of his other premises, the Great Gatsby, a much larger pub over four floors, which banks around £1.2m a year.

She says small businesses are the lifeblood of the economy and she warns that it is getting harder to survive on the High Street. He comes from a family of publicans who have turned the city centre pub around since they took it on in 2004. That puts the business rates bill at about £53,000, a more than three-fold increase on the £17,000 he paid in 2017 when rates were recalculated.He says there are fewer police in St Albans after the local police station was closed, and he pays £9,000 a year to have his bins collected.Not only that, but his dad now has to spend more hours behind the bar because, since the rates increase, they cannot afford to replace their bar manager who left.

 

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