1020 Hrs GMT London Sunday 02 August 2009:
Evidentially noting and reiterating KHOODEELAAR! told you so! as the London FT is forced by facts to concede: CRASS role in foisting CROSSRAIL penalty on London businesses...."mayor faces business backlash"
Mayor faces business backlash
By Bob Sherwood
Published: July 31 2009 03:00 | Last updated: July 31 2009 03:00
Boris Johnson, London mayor, is facing a backlash from business against plans to raise more than £4bn from the capital's hard-pressed companies to fund the Crossrail scheme.
The British Retail Consortium warned there would be "considerable opposition" to the proposal to levy a business rate supplement from April.
The retailers' body predicted that Mr Johnson's plan, issued yesterday, to impose the maximum allowable 2p in the pound uplift on rates risked undermining companies' recovery. Bob Sherwood
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