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Discretionary Business Rate Relief Scheme
Business Rates payers
As you will be aware from the media, changes are being announced almost on a daily basis which will have an impact of what many of you will have to pay for 2020/21.
We are awaiting further details and an update from our software supplier so that we can implement the changes and send the affected customers amended bills.
This is a very challenging time and staff are doing all they can to get the right bills to you as quickly as possible and we would ask you to bear with us.
If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail counciltax@hastings.gov.uk, quoting your reference in the subject box at the top of the e-mail. Your reference normally begins with a 3 and is 13 digits long. eg (3000000049532)
Please Note: Details of the 2018/19 scheme will be published shortly.
Following a revaluation of premises in April 2017, a number of local business have seen an increase in the business rate liabilities.
The council has been awarded a grant by the government to offer discretionary relief for businesses affected by the revaluation.
The funding covers a 4 year period and the approved policy for administering the grant is shown below:
In order to be eligible for funding, a business must have been occupying their premises on 1 April 2017.
Around 300 potential recipients of the proposed scheme have been identified.
Eligible businesses have been contacted directly with an application form to apply for the relief.
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