Business Rates - Reductions, Exemptions and Discounts
Some businesses may be eligible for reductions in business rates.
-
Retail Relief
Updated information with effect the 1st April 2023
-
Transitional Relief
-
Charity and community amateur sports club relief
A relief scheme for registered charities and community amateur sports clubs.
-
Rate relief for businesses in rural areas
A relief scheme for certain properties within a rural settlement that meet certain criteria.
-
Hardship relief
The local authority has discretion to give hardship relief in specific circumstances.
-
Discretionary rate relief - not for profit organisations
Billing authorities can award relief of up to 100% to non-profitmaking bodies.
-
Empty, unoccupied properties
Business rates will not be payable in the first three months that a property is empty. This is extended to six months in the case of certain industrial properties.
-
Part occupied properties
It is at the discretion of a local authority to apply a section 44a reduction.
-
Small business rates relief
A relief scheme for small businesses based on certain criteria.
-
March budget relief scheme 2017
Supporting Small Businesses (SSB), Local Discretionary Discount Scheme, Pub Relief, Local Newspapers
-
Updated Relief Scheme March Budget 2020
Supporting Small Businesses (SSB), Local Discretionary Discount Scheme, New Pub Relief, Local Newspapers
-
Supporting small business relief
-
Implementation of green reliefs
At the Spring Statement on 23 March 2022, the Chancellor announced that the Government would bring forward from April 2023 to April 2022 a measure to support investment in green energy efficiency. The measure was a 100% relief for eligible low-carbon heat networks which have their own rates bill.