Business rates are holding Britain back.
Physical businesses face major bills before they have sold a product or made a profit. Help us build the case for a fairer system.
Take action
Three simple ways to help make business-rates reform impossible to ignore.
Back the campaign
Add your name and show visible public support for reform.
Add your support →02Write to your MP
Enter your postcode, find your MP and open a ready-written message.
Find your MP → 03Tell us your story
Run a business? Tell us how rates affect your costs, investment and jobs.
Share your experience →A tax that punishes physical businesses
Business rates are based largely on property values rather than profits. Shops, pubs, factories and other businesses that need premises can face substantial fixed costs regardless of how well they are doing.
Rethink the Rates is gathering public support and real business evidence before Prosper UK publishes a serious proposal for reform.
Understand the issue →Have rates affected your business?
Your experience can help shape the campaign and the policy proposal that follows.