Responding to a petition calling for business rates to be changed for childcare providers and make them zero VAT rated, which received more than 10,000 signatures, the Treasury acknowledges that business rates can represent a ‘high-fixed cost’ for small businesses, such as ‘nursery schools’, and says it has delivered a package of rate relief worth £10bn by 2023.
Once a petition on the GOV.UK website receives 10,000 signatures, the Government must provide a response.
The National Day Nurseries Association, which has been campaigning for a change in business rates, expressed its disappointment and hit out at officials for not understanding the sector as maintained nursery schools, which the Treasury mentioned, are not affected by the ‘tax’.
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