“A petition is being signed by thousands to get Empty Property Rates Tax debated in Parliament”

 The property sector urgently needs your help to fight the Government’s unfair Empty Property Rates (EPR) tax.

The Business Centre Association, whose members serve more than 40,000 start ups and SMEs in the UK, has launched a petition to get the Empty Property Rates threshold debated in Parliament.

 We’ve been tirelessly lobbying MPs of all parties, this past week British Property Federation is backing our campaign, but there’s still a huge amount to do. We urgently need 100,000 signatures if we are to trigger Parliamentary debate before the autumn budget statement. 

Property owners have been placed under extreme financial pressure since April 2011 when the Government dramatically lowered the Empty Property Rate threshold from £18,000 to £2,600.

 When the EPR threshold was first introduced it led to the tax being dubbed ‘Bombsite Britain’, once again landlords and flexible space providers are being forced to consider demolishing perfectly good buildings with nothing to replace them as the current EPR threshold makes them financially unviable.

 The current Empty Property Rates tax threshold is stifling regeneration, it is inhibiting economic growth. It is threatening jobs and the supply of flexible work space when it is most needed to aid the UK’s economic recovery.

Join our campaign to raise the EPR threshold to its previous £18,000 level before it’s too late.

Click here http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/318 to find out more or sign the petition.”

The Business Association Ltd Reg No 3636769

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