Lib Dems publish plans to cut taxes for businesses by 28% in Gedling!

The Liberal Democrats have published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system, cutting taxes for businesses by 28% in Gedling.

Local Liberal Democrat spokesperson Sebastian Soar has described the plans as "exactly the sort of policy we need to boost local investment and ensure businesses in Gedling thrive".

The report - Taxing Land, Not Investment - calls for the abolition of business rates and its replacement with a tax on land values, the Commercial Landowner Levy (CLL).

The levy would remove buildings and machinery from calculations and tax only the land value of commercial sites, boosting investment and cutting taxes for businesses.

Liberal Democrat members debated and passed the proposals at the party's Autumn Conference in Brighton.

Local Liberal Democrat spokesperson Alan Dawson said:

"Time and again I have heard concerns about the devastating impact of business rates on struggling high streets and the wider local economy.

"It is the responsibility of the current Conservative Government to ensure that our businesses are able to thrive, but ministers are not doing anywhere near enough.

"Liberal Democrats demand better. That is why we are campaigning to create the environment needed for local businesses to grow and create jobs in Gedling"

Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable added:

"Business rates were a badly designed policy to begin with and have become an unacceptable drag on our economy. They are a tax on productive investment at a time of chronically weak productivity growth, and a burden on high streets struggling to adapt to the rise of online retail."