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Small Business Rate Relief is available at 100% for ratepayers who occupy single properties with a rateable value of up to £12,000. If eligible ratepayers have a property with a rateable value from £12,001 to £15,000, relief is available on a sliding scale from 100% to 0%, where every £30 rateable value equates to 1%.
For example, if a property has a rateable value of £14,250, we could award relief of 25%, while we could discount business rates for a property with a rateable value of £12,750 by 75%.
Small Business Rate Relief is only available to:
- Rate payers with only one business property with a rateable value of less than £15,000; or
- Ratepayers occupying a main property with a rateable value of less than £15,000, but also occupying other properties, each with rateable values under £2,900, and the total rateable value of them does not exceed £19,999. We can only award relief on the property with the highest rateable value.
If we need supporting documents, we will tell you in each section of the form. If there isn’t enough space to tell us about your circumstances, give us details on a separate sheet of paper and send it with the form.
Return your completed form and supporting documents to your local office. We can also accept scanned images of your form and documents if you send them by email. The address to send them back to us is in the Rate Relief Claim Form below.
Supporting Small Business Relief
As a result of the 1 April 2023 Revaluation, the Government have provided a support scheme for those businesses losing their eligibility for Small Business Rates Relief or Rural Rate Relief. This relief scheme will ensure that the increases in the bills for these effected ratepayers will be limited to a cash value of £600 per year.
If your business was in receipt of Small Business Rates Relief or Rural Rate Relief, and have lost this due to the 2023 Revaluation, you do not need to apply for this relief as it will automatically be applied to your Business Rates bill.