Fwd: Invitation - Liverpool City Council: Budget Consultation for Business

[Alex J Lennon]

Might be relevant re: business rates

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Subject:	Invitation - Liverpool City Council: Budget Consultation for Business
Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:56:24 +0000
From:	Emily Reardon <Emily....@liverpoolchamber.org.uk>

Good morning,

 

On behalf of our CEO, Paul Cherpeau, I’d like to invite you to an upcoming online budget briefing hosted by Liverpool City Council.

 

This session will enable business leaders to hear directly from the Council as it undertakes its budget-setting process. The Council wishes to ensure that the business community are an integral part of how it sets its future spending priorities and understands the decisions they have to make.

 

Date: Tuesday 10^th February 2026

Time: 12noon – 1pm

Registration: Register your place via this link. Attendees will receive the Teams link no less than 24 hours prior to the event.

 

Speakers will include:

• Cllr Nick Small, Cabinet Member for Growth and Economy
• Cllr Ruth Bennett, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance, Resources, and Transformation

 

This year’s conversation will cover the following key points:

• An economic outlook
• Key changes to Business Rates
• Information on Business Rates Reliefs

 

Attendees are encouraged to use the Eventbrite registration form to ask any questions they may have around the above content, to help shape the direction of the session.

 

We hope that you can join us – if you have any questions, please let me know.

 

Kind regards,

 

Emily Reardon

Event Co-ordinator

 

Liverpool Chamber of Commerce CIC

Suite G08-G10, Cotton Exchange Building Bixteth Street, Liverpool, L3 9LQ

 

Office: 0151 227 1234 | Mobile: 0748 336 3709

Email: Emily....@liverpoolchamber.org.uk

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[John McKerrell]

Thanks, I've signed up although have zero confidence in anything useful coming out of it! The form has a "Are there any questions you'd like to ask in advance of the session?" part but I feel like I won't get useful answers to my questions.

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[Sean Gleeson]

'As we all know, the international megacorps are phenomenal at avoiding paying their taxes, although there doesn't seem to be as much leeway for the rest of us. Are there any hints and tricks you can give us small organisations that will enable us to bring down our crippling rates bills, and actually stay in business?'

'Has anyone done the maths yet on whether it's better to have 10 businesses paying reasonable rates that they can actually afford, or 5 businesses paying the full, eye-watering amount, and 5 empty buildings?'

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[David Coveney]

Common issue in business is that you can rinse some customers in the short term and make a huge amount of money, knowing they have few other options.

A business with an office or a store in a city can't easily replace it with one in another more competitive city. Similarly, a business with an ERP system from Oracle can't replace it with one from a more competitive supplier without a lot of cost and pain. Cynical governments and businesses know this and can ratchet up the income they get from these people knowing they have few options. They may, in the end, lose 80% of customers, but they increased the income from the remaining 20% by 1000% and so make twice the money for half the work.

Think of it as the great filter of business/tax.

Most tax in the UK is paid by moderately high earning workers, for example. You can't easily change your country on a whim unless you're a multi-millionaire. So people who earn well get charged a lot.

Just remember that a government is really just a sort of  monopoly business that has the right to use violence to its means. Doesn't matter whether it's left or right leaning, really - the fundamentals remain even if the methods may differ.

Dave

[Alex J Lennon]

I wish I could disagree Dave

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[John McKerrell]

Did anyone else sign up for this and manage to get on the teams call? I got the information yesterday but I'm getting "Sorry, but you do not have access to this event." I even signed up for a Microsoft account for my DoES email.

John

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