Business Rates
The 2026 revaluation, multipliers, reliefs, empty rates and appeals.
Business Rates Explained: A Guide for Commercial Landlords
How UK business rates are calculated, who is liable, and where a commercial landlord picks up the bill. Plain-English guidance with a free calculator.
The 2026 Business Rates Revaluation: What Changed and Why
The 1 April 2026 revaluation, the new five-multiplier system and what it means by sector. Verified figures and a free business rates calculator.
Business Rates Multipliers 2026/27: The Full Rate Card
The full 2026/27 business rates multiplier table: 38.2p, 43.0p, 43.2p, 48.0p and 50.8p, plus the one-year 1p supplement. Verified figures.
Small Business Rate Relief: Thresholds and How It Works
Small Business Rate Relief explained: 100% relief up to 12,000 rateable value, tapering to 15,000. Who claims it and why it does not apply to empty property.
Empty Property Business Rates: Rules and Void Costs
The empty-rates void window (three months, six for industrial), the exemptions, the 13-week reoccupation reset, and how to model your exposure.
How to Appeal Your Business Rates: Check, Challenge, Appeal
The VOA Check, Challenge, Appeal process step by step: deadlines, the evidence you need, material change of circumstances, and when to use a surveyor.
The New Duty to Notify the VOA of Changes
The duty to notify the VOA of property changes: phased from 1 April 2026, mandatory for all ratepayers by 1 April 2029. What landlords need to do.
Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Business Rates Relief
How RHL business rates help works from 2026: the temporary discount replaced by permanent lower multipliers (38.2p and 43.0p), who qualifies, and the 500,000 threshold.
Rateable Value: How the VOA Assesses Your Property
What rateable value is, the 1 April 2024 valuation date for the 2026 list, how the VOA assesses it (rental, contractor's and receipts bases), and how to check it.
Business Rates Mitigation: A Landlord Guide
Legitimate ways to reduce a business rates bill: reliefs, checking the rateable value, empty-property strategies, and where lawful mitigation ends and avoidance begins.
Charitable Business Rates Relief
Charitable business rates relief: 80% mandatory plus up to 20% discretionary, and how charity occupation is used to relieve empty property, with the cautions.
Transitional Relief: How Rate Changes Phase In
How business rates transitional relief caps year-on-year increases after a revaluation, how it works for the 2026 list, and the link to the 1p supplement.
Improvement Relief for Business Rates
How business rates improvement relief means qualifying improvements do not raise the bill straight away, the conditions, and why it matters for MEES upgrades.