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<p>Treasury Ministers receive representations from many different stakeholders on
a range of issues, including business rates.</p><p> </p><p>The government has made
recent reforms to reduce the burden of business rates, notably for small businesses.
Budget 2016 announced cuts worth approximately £9bn by the end of the parliament which
took 600,000 of the smallest businesses out of rates, and Autumn Budget 2017 announced
a further £2.3bn of reductions including bringing forward the planned switch in the
indexation of rates from RPI to CPI to 2018.</p>
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