The Government has recently announced the Valuation Office Agency is to close by April 2026 and will be incorporated into HMRC as an effort to minimise red tape and to reduce cost. A sad demise on spurious grounds to close down an Agency which for many years has been a staunch advocate of high professional standards in business rates and valuation practice, but which has been gradually depleted by successive Governments until it has become a shadow of its former self. A sad demise indeed.
