Relief available for business rates

If you pay business rates, you may be able to get rate relief.

You must apply for some rate reliefs, but others are automatic.

• Charitable rate relief
• Enterprise zone relief
• Hardship relief
• Local discretionary discount
• Newspaper relief
• Public house (pub) relief 
• Relief for properties only partly occupied
• Rural rate relief
• Small business rate relief
• Supporting small businesses relief
• Transitional rate relief
• Unoccupied properties

Policies

• Our Discretionary and Hardship Relief Policy (PDF)
• Granting of discretionary business rate relief, supporting small business rate relief and pub relief (PDF)

Contact

• Contact the business rates team

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