How to reduce your Business Rates bill

Support for Small Businesses

This scheme announced in the November 2022 Autumn Statement will help ratepayers who, as a result of the change in their rateable value at revaluation, are losing some or all of their small business rate relief or rural rate relief.

To qualify:-

  • Businesses should have received small business rate relief or rural rate relief in the 2022/23 financial year; and

  • Seen an increase in their rateable value from 1 April 2023; and

  • Had a reduction in their small business rate relief or rural rate relief from 1 April 2023; and

  • Seen their business rates bill increase by more than £600 per year from 1 April 2023


The scheme will be in place between 2023/24 and 2025/26.

Each year increases in business rates bills for eligible businesses will be capped at £600.

The discount will end when the bill reaches the amount that would have been paid without the scheme or the property becomes vacant.

All ratepayers who are eligible to receive this relief have been identified.

The scheme also provides support for those previously eligible for the 2022/23 SSB scheme and facing large increases in 2023/24 but in those cases for one further year only.