lotus_esprit_s1
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I‘m currently paying £450 quarterly on a 24ftx20ft workshop - does this seem right? I looked online how it is calculated and got completely confused!
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8ob
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Check out the rate relief scheme, it may well apply https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-business-rate-relief/small-business-rate-relief
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Thanks, just looked at the gov site regarding rates relief - it looks to me that the rateable value of it according to my bill is £14600 so I can potentially get 13.3% off.
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Bloody hell £14,600 rateable value for a wee workshop? You must live in an expensive place.
lotus_esprit_s1
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Although I live in a very expensive place I may have made a mistake! My bill reads “RV for period” (£3650) which I took as rateable value for the period of the quarterly bill however just looked up the identical unit next door and that is £3700 per annum so hopefully I can pay zero rates
You should get it for zero. You can also claim back some of what you have been paying. Up here anyway you can get, I think, 2 or possibly 3 years back.Johnnybravo
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Once in contact,I found the people dealing with business rates in my area very helpful. I pay nothing on the small workshop (6mx9m)and,after a bit of paperwork I managed to get the big 20mx6m workshop business rates free as well because it shared a common wall with the smaller unit and the rateable value of both is less than whatever the maximum is.
I do think the councils are a bunch of wallys though,as the small unit had been rates exempt for the last 15 years. They were very quick to send an invoice and schedule of payments when I moved in,( within the first week of occupancy). They could have least asked what the building was going to be used for and point out that there was a high likelihood of it being small business rate exempt if I applied…
I do think the councils are a bunch of wallys though,as the small unit had been rates exempt for the last 15 years. They were very quick to send an invoice and schedule of payments when I moved in,( within the first week of occupancy). They could have least asked what the building was going to be used for and point out that there was a high likelihood of it being small business rate exempt if I applied…
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Not really, they do absolutely nothing for a business. Its the business that benefits the area by employing people, cant think of a service offered by the council that benefits anything I do or warrants the 25k a year they would like to steal from this place, I even have to pay to get bins emptied. If it wasn't for the o so generous rate relief scheme I would lay everyone off and pack up, and I am not alone on this.
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I get your point! I too have to pay to get the bins emptied at the workshop - even when I was paying rates.
I think your question is: "what do you get for the money from paying business rates".
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Pre covid - business rates in a small town on a retail shop unit in the town centre were higher per year than the rent - that can't be right!
Retail units in a "high street" are not prime realestate now!
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I know the answer to that, it will be paying for an army of overpaid chair polishers that will join the battalions of other chair polishers that suck the lifeblood out of anyone that wants to get on in this country.
Bob
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it was before covid for some reason there forcing shopping business out of the towns due to high rates
and replacing them with office workers instead
ive also noticed a trend in putting flats in the city centres as well
alot of the flats are dwp or foriegn rented in the city centers really i dont see the point in that good waste of money that there not paying
thats whats been going on in my area
