Liability for empty property rates

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Liability is placed on the owner of vacant hereditaments. Clearly the occupier cannot be liable, as is normally the case in rating, because, by definition, a vacant hereditament has no occupier. 'Owner' does not necessarily mean the freeholder as section 65(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 defines 'owner' as...

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