Non-Domestic Rate Relief and Rate Support Schemes by District Council

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These annual statistics show the number and amount of reliefs awarded to Non-Domestic Properties by District Council and Rating Year.

The following Rate Relief and Support Schemes are included: Industrial Derating, Non-Domestic Vacant Rating, Charitable Exemption for Rates, Sports and Recreation Rate Relief, Residential Homes Rate Relief, Small Business Rate Relief (including for small Post Offices), Freight and Transport Rates Relief, Business Rates Holiday, Emergency Flood Support, Back in Business Rate Support*

Information on schemes along with qualifying criteria can be found via the following link: https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/content/help-available-business-rates

Figures have been extracted from the Land and Property Services (LPS) General Ledger models as at 31st March for each rating year. The data represents a year-end snapshot and is not adjusted respectively.

Number of properties benefiting is the count of properties that received a Rate Relief/Support Scheme award during the rating year (where the value awarded was greater than £0.01). This measure differs from a count of properties currently in receipt of the Rate Relief/Support Scheme at a specific point in time. It also differs from the number of occupancies benefitting, where an occupancy represents the liable person, persons, business, or organisation at a property. Most Rate Relief/Support Schemes are applied at the occupancy level.

The ‘Amount’ represents the total value of relief or exemption for each property that benefited at any point during the rating year and therefore does not include any clawbacks for prior rating years.

The Number of Properties and Amount reflect all properties that benefitted at any point in the year, and some transactions may relate to earlier rating years.

Some properties receive more than one Rate Relief/Support Scheme within a rating year.

The Back in Business Rate Support Scheme reopened in April 2024 for business premises that began occupation on or after 1 April 2024; the previous scheme operated from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023. The numbers of properties and amounts being reported here include any that have benefitted from either scheme. As a result, these figures will differ from those published for the April 2024 scheme alone at the occupancy level.

The data presented in this Management Information has been produced by statisticians within the Land & Property (LPS) Statistics Branch. Our statistical practice is regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR). OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics that all producers of official statistics should adhere to, while the data presented is not an Official Statistic, the pillars of the Code of practice have been applied in the production of the data.