Business rates relief

How the scheme works

You can get small business rate relief if: 

• your property's rateable value is less than £15,000
• your business only uses on property across England - although you may still be able to get relief if you use more than one. 

You cannot get small business rate relief and charitable rate relief at the same time.  

What you'll get

How much small business rate relief you get depends on your property's rateable value.  You will not pay business rates relief on a property with a rateable value of £12,000 or less, if that's the only property your business uses. 

For properties with a rateable value of £12,001 to £15,000, the rate of relief will go down gradually from 100% to 0%.  For example, if your rateable value is £13,500, you'll get 50% off your bill.  If your rateable value is £14,000, you'll get 33.3% off. 

Download a SBRR application form

Claims for relief after April 2012 do not need to be made on a standard form, these can be made by e-mail to businessrates@NorthWarks.gov.uk, by letter or by telephone on 01827 715341.

How do I claim?

To make a claim please complete an application form and e-mail a scanned copy to businessrates@NorthWarks.gov.uk, or post it to the Billing team at the Council Offices, stating that you are claiming Small Business Rates Relief going back to April 2010. If you are due a refund, this will be returned to you as soon as possible. If you pay your rates by direct debit the refund will be returned to the account from which it was debited. You do not need professional advisers to help you, if you have any concerns then please do not hesitate to contact the Council Offices on 01827 715341

If you have two properties, as long as one has a rateable value below £2,899 and the combined total of the rateable values is below £20,000 you can still claim relief as above on the larger property.

Taking on an additional property: 

With effect from 14th February 2014 Central Government introduced new regulations in respect of the Small Business Rate Relief scheme.

A ratepayer can now occupy a further property, which would previously have meant they were no longer entitled to any relief. They must have started to occupy the other property after they occupied the initial property, they must only have occupied the second property for a period of less than 12 months and they must not be in receipt of Small Business Rate Relief for the second property. If a ratepayer meets these criteria they can retain the original relief on their initial property for a period of 12 months from when they first occupy their second property.