Local Discretionary Rate Relief
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The Government has announced that it will provide relief from Business Rates following the 2017 Revaluation and where a Ratepayer is facing an increase in their Business Rates liability. The relief is available for four years from 2017/18 through to 2020/21. The Council is required to have its own Local Discretionary Rates Relief scheme in place. This is in addition to the Council’s Mandatory and Discretionary Rate Relief policy.
The qualifying conditions for East Staffordshire Borough Council’s Local Discretionary Rates Relief scheme are as follows:
Relief will be restricted to the increase in Business Rates payable for 2017/18 when compared with 2016/17, not the overall amount due for 2017/18. Relief for each of the four years commencing 2017/18 will be calculated by formula as follows:
Ratepayer will not qualify for Local Discretionary Rate Relief if any the condition below are satisfied.
Any relief applied will be subject to State Aid rules.
State Aid Rules
The rules concerning EU State Aid require that your business does not receive more than €200,000 of State Aid in a three year period. Further information concerning State Aid can be obtained via the following links
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/state-aid and
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:352:0001:0008:EN:PDF
In order to satisfy the Rating Authority that you comply with State Aid law, you will be required to declare to the Council if you have received or are receiving any other De Minimis State Aid in the last three years. This will include any Supporting Pub Relief and Supporting Small Business Relief you are being granted in respect of any other premises that you occupy. You must declare that the award of all reliefs does not exceed the €200,000 that a Ratepayer can receive under the De Minimis Regulations EC 1407/2013.
If a declaration to this effect is not received, Supporting Pub Relief or Supporting Small Business Relief will not be granted.