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  • Your account
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Your account

  • Business rates account

    View your balance, correspondence and instalments

  • Report a business rates move

    Tell us about a move for your business

  • Make a business rates change

    Tell us about a change and make sure your bill is correct

Charges

  • What are business rates?

    Business rates are charged on most non-domestic properties

  • Business rates explanatory notes

    Every year, we provide explanatory notes about your business rates bill

  • Calculating business rates

    How business rates are calculated

  • Rates checker

    Find and check your business rates valuation

  • Business rates for new properties

    How business rates are charged on a new property

  • Revaluation

    Why your rateable value could change after the 2023 revaluation

  • Appealing your rateable value

    Appeals against rateable values can be made free of charge

  • Business rates recovery

    If you fall behind with your payments we may need to take action

Reliefs and exemptions

  • Empty exemption

    Your property may be temporarily exempt from business rates if empty

  • Mandatory and discretionary charitable rate relief

    Where the ratepayer of an occupied property is a registered charity or a Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC) then 80% mandatory rate relief can be awarded

  • Part occupied relief

    We have the discretionary power to grant S44a relief on business premises that are partly occupied

  • Retail relief

    Additional business rates support for eligible retail, hospitality and leisure businesses that occupy a qualifying property

  • Rural rate relief

    Certain types of businesses in rural villages with a population below 3,000 may qualify for rate relief of 50%

  • Small Business Rate Relief (SBRR)

    You may be entitled to business rates relief if the property you're occupying has a low rateable value

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