Pub relief
If you are a public house or a live music venue, you could be entitled to 15% business rates relief. If we are aware you are entitled to this relief, we will apply this to your account and your entitlement will be calculated on your new business rates bill.
To be entitled to pub relief you must fit the criteria below depending on your venue type; public house or live music venue.
Public House
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Be open to the general public
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Allow free entry other than when occasional entertainment is provided
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Allow drinking without requiring food to be consumed
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Permit drinks to be purchased at a bar
Live Music Venues
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Be wholly or mainly used for the purpose of entertaining an audience
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Used for other activities but only if those activities are
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Ancillary or incidental to the performance of live music ( e.g. the sale of food or drink to audience members)
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Do not affect the primary use of the premises for the performance of love music ( e.g. because the activities are infrequent such as use of the venue as a polling stating or fortnightly community event )
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Properties are not a live music venue for the purpose of this relief if the property is wholly or mainly used as a nightclub or theatre.
Examples of businesses that will not be entitled to the 15% business rates relief are a
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Restaurant, café, nightclub or snack bar
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Hotel, guesthouse, boarding houses
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Sporting venues
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Festival sites, theatres, cinemas
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Museums, exhibition halls
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Casino
If you believe you are entitled to this relief but this has not been applied, please contact us at rates@gravesham.gov.uk for a view of your account