URGENT - ACTION REQUIRED TL;DR VERSION: Write to Your MP NOW about Business Rate Relief for Grassroots Music Venues. The Budget debate has started, and we can, collectively, influence the outcome of it. You can do that with an incredibly simple process, just click below and follow the instructions. It will take you less than 1 minute. CLICK HERE: https://lnkd.in/dfcs7zvq FULL VERSION: The Government has announced a significant reduction in Business Rate Relief for venues in England in the budget. This will increase Business Rates bills for Grassroots Music Venues by 140%. Music Venue Trust believes that this rate relief reduction and the resulting soaring tax rises *may* be avoidable. We also believe that if we could be successful in mitigating it in some way this may open up an opportunity to restore Rate Relief in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We have provided extensive data to government on the impact of this reduction, but we now need you to support that appeal. The way to do this is to Write to Your MP, and we have made this as simple as possible for you to do - literally, it can be done in one click with your postcode and just filling in your name and simple address. It will take less than 1 minute to write to your MP DO IT NOW WHILE THE BUDGET DEBATE IS TAKING PLACE: CLICK HERE: https://lnkd.in/dfcs7zvq READ MORE HERE: https://lnkd.in/dF7zd58k
Over the next few days, please write to your local MP about the urgent need for action to stop the rise in Business Rates and prevent hundreds of grassroots music venues closing. We’ve made an online resource at https://lnkd.in/edXy8Q_7 to make this as easy as possible for you to do so.