Times are tough enough for shop owners without being hounded by a bunch of chancers. Like Rating and Valuation Company Limited, a firm that claims to help cut business rates.
I’ve heard from retailers who say they have been hit with hefty invoices by this company, even though it has not reduced their rates.
It wants a 15% commission from its clients off the back of the business rates cuts announced by the Government, first to help fight the High Street slump and then to help survive lockdown.
Malcolm Sibson runs Copplestone Bridal in Liverpool and had signed a contract with Rating And Valuation Company, paying £695 and agreeing to a further 15% of any rates reductions it achieved. “Rating And Valuation Company challenged my rates with the