Barchester Disctrict Council

The Business Rate is changing next April. The present UBR based on rental
values will be replaced by a charge based on the annual rental value of the site
on which your property stands.

Discussion Paper:
One technique for determining land values, and used in conjunction with others,
is the residual method. In principle, this deducts the value of the building from the
total value of the property to give the value of the site. But because rental values
are relatively stable but selling prices are volatile, the former figure is more
reliable as a basis for the valuation.

Barchester District Council
The Council Tax is changing next April. The present Council Tax with bands
from A to H will be replaced by a charge based on the annual rental value of
the site on which your house or flat is built.

A presentation by Tommas Graves to the HGF Library goup in March 2010, detailing the attitude of bankers to the recent monetary problems, and the efforts to get back to the same situation as quickly as possible:

\"The banking community did not seem very contrite when blamed for the credit crunch. It was as if they had no idea why they were at fault, and now we observe that their main effort is to get back to exactly the same position as before, with the attendant remuneration basis. What are we to make of this?\"