Other reliefs
Supporting Small Businesses Relief
The Supporting Small Businesses scheme will help those ratepayers who, as a result of the change in their rateable value at the revaluation, are losing some or all of their small business or rural rate relief and, as a result, are facing large increases in their bills.
In the first year of the scheme, this means eligible ratepayers will see the increase in their bill capped at £600. The cash minimum increase is a further £600 per year thereafter. This means that ratepayers who are currently paying nothing under small business rate relief and are losing all of their entitlement to relief (i.e. moving from £6,000 rateable value or less to more than £15,000) would under this scheme be paying £3,000 in year five with stepped increases of £600 per annum in each year prior to that.
We will automatically notify ratepayers who are eligible for this relief.