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.

Business rate reliefs

• Subsidy allowance overview and declaration
• Charitable rate relief
• Enterprise zone relief
• Hardship relief
• Local discretionary discount
• Newspaper relief
• Nursery (childcare) discount
• Partly occupied relief
• Retail discount
• Rural rate relief
• Small business rate relief
• Supporting small businesses relief
• Transitional rate relief
• Unoccupied properties

Policies

• 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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