
THE PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW
Highlighting best practice
2| GOODMAN NASH
or large enterprises, including those
working in retail, leisure, industrial,
manufacturing and finance sectors. We
are confident enough in our success
that our revenue comes from taking
a percentage of the savings we make
for our clients. Our status as one of
the largest dedicated property audit
companies in the UK means we will do
whatever it takes to discover, recover
and reduce costs.
The area in which we work is primarily
concerned with commercial property,
and we perform our work within
the jurisdictions of England, Wales
and Scotland. At present, we have
55 employees, among whom are
chartered surveyors, ex-local authority
employees and graduates. One of
the keys to our success is our ability
to mine and interrogate data in
order to discover opportunities in the
marketplace. After finding companies
who could benefit from our services,
we approach them with specific details
about how much we can save them by
securing reductions in rateable value
and through corrections of charges
more generally. All of this, of course,
is done responsibly and with due
adherence to the regulation of data.
Our expertise means we can work across
the whole of the UK. Relief entitlement,
which varies considerably from
jurisdiction to jurisdiction, is therefore
something we can deliver on, wherever
our client comes from. Detailed and
intricate knowledge of this policy area
is the result of our many decades’
worth of accumulatedexperience.
Working through
unpredictability
Our ability to navigate in this difficult
terrain is among the best, but there
are hurdles that – although they may
not affect our clients – might affect
our business. I’m speaking here of the
constant political changes in the area of
business rates. In 2018, for example, the
chancellor announced that from April
2019, businesses with a rateable value of
less than £51,000 would have one third
of their rates bill cut. Another example
of sudden change is the postponement
of the revaluation that was due to take
place in 2015. The government also
said recently that revaluations will occur
every three years after 2021.
These changes can present significant
difficulties because we charge on the
Alan and Andrew with
Devizes Museum Director
David Dawson, one of
our more unusual clients
Our expertise
means we can
work across
the whole of
the UK
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