CBI calls for business rates exemption for green building upgrades

Britain's biggest business group urges Treasury to exempt green building upgrades and technologies from business rates to help drive decarbonisation efforts
The government should exempt green technologies and energy efficiency investments from business tax rates in order to accelerate the net zero transition, according to the UK's biggest business group the...
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