Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs
Any extra revenue raised would be funneled back into the business rates system. "Revenue raised from these reforms will be reinvested in improvements to the business rates system." REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); The details remain hazy, but the direction of travel is clear enough. Ministers want marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, Etsy, and Temu to do more to ensure that merchants using their platforms are paying the VAT they owe, rather than leaving HMRC to chase thousands of individual sellers after the fact.
- ▪Any extra revenue raised would be funneled back into the business rates system.
- ▪"Revenue raised from these reforms will be reinvested in improvements to the business rates system." REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); The details remain hazy, but the directi
- ▪Ministers want marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, Etsy, and Temu to do more to ensure that merchants using their platforms are paying the VAT they owe, rather than leaving HMRC to chase thousands of individual sellers after the fact.
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