Application for Small Business Rate Relief 2011

To apply for the Small Business Rate Relief for 2011 please complete the form, ensuring that you have entered information regarding ALL Business Rates properties that you occupy. If you require any assistance to complete this form please telephone (01983) 823920.

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Outline of the Scheme

The current temporary increase in Small Business Rate Relief which started on 1 October and was due to end on 30 September 2011 will now continue for a further year (1 October 2011 to 30 September 2012) The measure doubles the usual rate of relief so that ratepayers with rateable values below £6000 pay no rates at all for the period, while ratepayers with rateable values between £6000 and not more than £12000 receive tapered relief from 100% to 0% Eligible hereditaments will have the bill calculated using the Small Business Non-Domestic rating multiplier, which for 2011/12 is 0.426. Non eligible hereditaments will have the bill calculated using a high Non-Domestic rating multiplier, which for 2011/12 is 0.433.

Eligibility Criteria

	*The hereditament must be within the thresholds above. *The relief is only available to ratepayers with either: one property, or one main property where the ratepayer has other additional properties providing those additional properties have rateable values of less than £2,600, and the total value of all properties remains under £18,000. *The relief will only be applied to the main property. The charge on the additional hereditaments (under £2,600) will be based on the higher Non-Domestic rating multiplier. The Ratepayer must notify the billing authority of the following changes that may affect their entitlement to the relief, within four weeks starting on the day after the change occurred.  *Increases in the Rateable Value of a property occupied by the ratepayer which is not in the area of the billing authority granting Small Business Rate Relief - these changes will have to be notified in writing. *The Ratepayer coming into occupation of any property which is not mentioned in their application for relief - these changes will have to be notified through a fresh application for Small Business Rate Relief.
	Buffer Zone

*Hereditaments in the buffer zone (RV between £12,000 and £17,999) must apply for the relief in order that the bill be calculated using the Small Business rating multiplier. *The same eligibility criteria applies.

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