Most certainly, and that is one of the great arguments for rerating.
I should say that there are many good reasons why they should be rerated.
We on this side, have a method of broadening the basis—by completely rerating industry.
If industry were fully rerated it would be paying at a lower poundage than if it were partially rerated.
The local authorities are against it, the teaching profession is against it, and industry is against it so far as it effects rerating.
We have progressively rerated industry and, by pursuing that policy, have reduced the proportion of rates paid by the great majority of domestic ratepayers.
Our glasshouse growers will not be helped by his party's pledge to rerate agricultural land.
I say nothing about rerating or any of the minor issues.