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Bayswater small businesses hold out against BID levy

August 12, 2011 11:07 AM
By Tony Williams

The Bayswater Business Improvement District (BID), set up by the Council in January 2010, is a continuing scandal: small businesses which refused to pay the 2% levy on top of greatly increased rates, because they see zero benefit to them, were bludgeoned to pay up in June by Court action. But the story is not over yet: local Liberal Democrats plan to survey all businesses in the area to learn how many would support either excluding small businesses from the BID or winding the whole thing up.

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