Bill Grimsey, a retail campaigner and former Iceland boss, told the Commons business innovation and skills committee that the government should urgently review the way rates were calculated and scrap a decision to delay a revaluation of rates by two years to 2017.
He said the government had delayed plans for a 2015 revaluation of rates until 2017 to protect businesses from "volatility".
Some high street campaigners criticised the BRC for failing to support small retailers by ignoring the simple idea of bringing forward the date of the next revaluation of rates from its delayed 2017 deadline.
But Brandon Lewis, the minister responsible for high streets, batted away suggestions from members of the committee that the government should bring forward a revaluation of rates or undertake research into how the tax could be made more fair.
The coalition has just delayed business rate revaluation beyond next year while it pushes through the planning changes.
That's because the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) sent out a statement last October deferring the expected business rate revaluation scheduled for 2017.
Business rate revaluation, which will see increases in the capital and the opposite elsewhere, have been criticised by Khan and the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, yet may end up looking like the start of a national rescue operation.
The policy implication is that the larger NFA surplus a country accumulates, the more vulnerable the country is to exchange rate revaluation pressure.
Instead he seized on the situation in Scotland where George Younger, the Scottish secretary, was desperate for an alternative to the rates after a politically disastrous domestic rating revaluation had laid waste to Tory fortunes north of the border.
Before that, there had been no revaluation of domestic rates since 1973.
