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Legal Eagles – rates row

18 years ago

To pay or not to pay? The row over massive backdated business rates demands that broke out in Hull this summer is set to roll its way round the UK. Felicity Landon reports on the legal implications

What is clear is that Hull’s predicament will spread to every port around England and Wales: “And if companies are demanded to pay rates, they will have no choice,” says Mr Craven. “If a legal challenge was successful, they would then have to try to claim it back.”