Reductions for small businesses

If you have a small business, you may be able to get:

• small business rate relief
• support small business (SSB) relief

Small business rate relief

You can apply if:

• your business only uses one property
• your property’s rateable value is less than £15,000
• your business uses more than one property but meets certain criteria

You cannot get small business rate relief and charitable rate relief at the same time. We will decide which kind of relief you are eligible for.

If you use more than one property in England

When you get a second property, you’ll keep getting the relief you already get on your main property for 12 months.

You can still get small business rate relief on your main property after this if:

• each of your other properties has a rateable value of less than £2900
• the total rateable value of all your properties is less than £20,000

You can only get relief:

• on one property
• if that property is occupied

What you’ll get

What small business rate relief you get depends on the rateable value of the property.

You will not have to pay business rates if your property’s rateable value is £12,000 or below.

If you’re property’s rateable value is between £12,001 and £14,999 the rate of relief will go down gradually from 100% to 0%.

How to apply

Supporting small business (SSB) relief

You can get supporting small business relief if your business rates increased because of the most recent revaluation in April 2023, and this meant you lost some or all of your small business rate relief or rural rate relief.

What you’ll get

If you’re eligible, your bill will go up by no more than £600 for the 2023 to 2024 tax year.

How to apply

You do not need to apply, we’ll automatically adjust your bill.

If you want to ask about supporting small business relief, contact us.

Page last updated: 24 November 2023