Rates error behind Goole terminal closure

Government error has forced a Port of Goole terminal into liquidation.

A recent casualty of the UK Government’s retrospective rates bills levied on port businesses, port and stevedoring agency Scotline Terminal Goole (STG), was caused by government incompetence, as it has emerged that the £701,000 bill that forced them into liquidation was a mistake.

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