Small business rate relief

If you occupy a property with a rateable value of £15,000 or less you can apply for this relief.

To qualify for small business rate relief

Your business must occupy either:

• one property with a rateable value of £15,000 or less
• one main property plus other properties, as long as those other properties have rateable values of less than £2,900

The total rateable value of all the occupied properties must be under £28,000. We’ll only apply the relief to the main property.

If your business takes on another property, which would otherwise mean the loss of small business rate relief, you’re still entitled to relief on the first property for 12 months from the date on which you occupied the new property.

Apply for small business rate relief

You must tell us of any of these changes:

• you occupy another property
• there’s an increase in rateable value of a property you occupy in another local authority area

Small business rate relief amounts 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2017

In the 2010 rating list, properties with rateable values of £6,000 and below, received 100% relief, with a sliding scale discount on occupied properties from £6,001 to £11,999.

The cut off date for application for this relief was 30 September 2017.

Small business rate relief amounts 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2024

Page last updated: 30 March 2023