Small Businesses
Small Business Rates Relief
You can get small business rate relief if your premises rateable value is less than £15,000 and your business only occupies one premises. You may still be able to get relief if you have more than one premises.
If you use more than one premises
For 12 months you can continue receiving relief on your existing property if you occupy a second property. If the circumstances of the existing property change then the relief may stop. You can still get relief on your main premises after this if both the following apply:
- none of your other premises have a rateable value above £2,899
- the total rateable value of all your premises is less than £20,000.
What you get if you qualify
You will not pay business rates on a premises with a rateable value of £12,000 or less. For properties with a rateable value of £12,001 to £15,000, relief will go down gradually from 100% to 0%.
You are a small business but do not qualify for relief
We will calculate your bill using the small business multiplier if the premises you occupy has a rateable value below £51,000. This is the case even if you do not get small business rate relief. It will not apply if you get another type of relief.
The form can be found under related documents to the right of this page.