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Providing alternative views on Business Improvement District's (BID's). Against undemocratic and inappropriate practices of #BID's. BID News.

[Against BID @against_bid]

A Business Improvement District (BID) is an area for which a local authority charges an additional surcharge to business rates.
A BID company contracts with the local authority to deliver the BID arrangements, supplying services to the local authority.
https://t.co/gnuTc8sOg8

[Member Business @memberbusiness]

Would you like to know what a Business Improvement District actually does? If you work in a BID area and buy coffee & lunch every day it is costing you approx £25 extra/yr

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#businessimprovementdistrict #highstreet #misled #business #snakeoil #waste #uktax

[Against BID @against_bid]

@yorkpress If he hadn't been a naughty boy the Board wouldn't have asked him to resign. Own fault.
#Harrogate #BusinessImprovementDistrict

[Against BID @against_bid]

A must view 😂😂😂😂
#Clevedon #BusinessImprovementDistrict

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[Against BID @against_bid]

What do people think of a 'tourist tax' to stay in Harrogate? Well it could be a reality as had it confirmed by unhappy hotels that being looked at right now by @BidHarrogate & @HarrogateHTA.
FYI @Grumblerh @HgateAdvertiser @thestrayferret, does Harrogate want a tourist tax?

[Against BID @against_bid]

@TristanCorkPost Yep, quite right, imposing another BID levy on hotels but not Airbnb's is not right. This is a reason why other Accommodation BID's have been rejected.
https://t.co/j5aSpo63Qk

[Tristan Cork Post @TristanCorkPost]

Councillors agreed a Lib Dem budget amendment to look into a tourist tax. Councils don’t have the power to do it in England, but could use the Business Improvement District system as a workaround.
Read more on that here 👇🏼
https://t.co/NB7x8OIQdI

[Against BID @against_bid]

@TristanCorkPost An accommodation BID tourist tax will not be payable by Airbnb's, such a tourist tax work around is unfair and unequitable, as as we've seen rejected in Cambridge and Bournemouth.

[Against BID @against_bid]

@JDVance @JDVance trying to play the victim card 🤔😂😂😂

[Darryl Magher 🔱 @DarrylMagher]

Sacking and resignation as power struggle erupts inside flagship city centre project.

Westside BID represents businesses in Broad Street and surrounding parts of the city centre - it's been in the midst of an internal power struggle just as its future is on the line.

@SandwellSkidder @against_bid
https://t.co/eUnUHRcqFT

[Against BID @against_bid]

No surprise @burnleycouncil want to continue taxing businesses in Burnley @BurnleyBID.
Note they are extending the BID map boundary to tax more businesses, hopefully those Burnley businesses have been consulted with?!
#Burnley #BusinessImprovementDistrict
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[Against BID @against_bid]

#Clevedon #BusinessImprovementDistrict
If you have had a reminder to pay your Clevedon BID levy - you can refuse!
The Say NO to Clevedon BID campaign team is there to help you fight the Clevedon BID racket!

[B.Khan @misrikokhan]

@x_brum @SandwellSkidder @Keir_Starmer @truemagic68 @NeilRetail @KemiBadenoch @against_bid @Bobby_Alden @DarrylMagher @eldiablo0786 @CentralBIDBham After What I have learned & seen how the BID works, how those who 'manage' it has become nothing but about power, money & influence. Businesses who don't agree or want BIDs are subject to being disadvantaged & financial mismanagement with no accountability. Bid mafia.

[Jules Saunders @SandwellSkidder]

Difficult to have sympathy for bricks and mortar retailers when so many opt to join absurd BID schemes and pass on the levy to consumers. @Keir_Starmer @truemagic68 @NeilRetail @KemiBadenoch @against_bid @Bobby_Alden #westbrom @DarrylMagher @eldiablo0786
https://t.co/BH9EAc5jLu

[Against BID @against_bid]

@WarrOnWords @lever_colin @bailiwickxpress Gibraltar created BID legislation and businesses were duped into a BID through a ballot, but when businesses realised what was going with this new tax it turned bad and the BID was canned. Google it.

[Against BID @against_bid]

@WarrOnWords @lever_colin @bailiwickxpress As page 28 of the report says: "A BID would secure long-term funding for the Retail Sector and the improvements we will need to deliver for St Helier"
By secure funding they mean tax the 900 retail business that that account for half of Jersey GST, what a cheek!

[Against BID @against_bid]

@WarrOnWords @lever_colin @bailiwickxpress Spot on, and and many towns find BIDs a waste of money, simply another tax. https://t.co/gnuTc8sOg8

[Stephen Graham - TLP 🔥 @SGrahamg5]

So what effect is the Business Improvement District(BID) initiative having? I get copied into a news latter each week extoling its virtues, but it only appears to be PR with little material benefit #rdguk

[Against BID @against_bid]

@MerseyTrades @liamrobinson24 No

[Against BID @against_bid]

@ElitePropertyLn Let's remember that this will only be a voluntary scheme, no accommodation business can be compelled to charge it, and equally tyere is no legal basis to demand it of customers. It will simply be a supplementary charge.

[AberdareOnline @AberdareOnline]

As the current term of the Aberdare Business Improvement District (BID) nears its end in March 2025, Will local traders be questioning whether the ini https://t.co/8iPISZIh8Q #wales #news