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This guidance is intended to support billing authorities in administering the 2025/26 Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Business Rates Relief Scheme.
How the Valuation Office Agency calculates your rateable value for business rates.
When and how to request a reduction in rateable value or to delete a property from the business rates list and when properties do not qualify.
The Valuation Office Agency's (VOA) technical manual for the rating of business (non-domestic) property.
This guidance is intended to support billing authorities in administering the 2024/25 Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Business Rates Relief Scheme.
This page provides details about the circumstances under which you may be charged a penalty following Check or Challenge.
The Valuation Office Agency does not usually change your rateable value if your property is in a state of disrepair. There are however, exceptions to this.
Fill in form VO BR25 if the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) has asked you to confirm information about a self-catering holiday let in Wales.
The VOA wants to help customers provide the right information when making a Check, and the following focuses on how to do this for shops that are zoned for valuation purposes.
The VOA wants to help customers provide the right information when making a Check, and the following focuses on how to do this for factories, workshops and warehouses.
This guidance is to support local authorities in administering the film studios business rates relief.
This guidance is intended to support billing authorities in administering the 2023/24 Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Business Rates Relief Scheme.
We have introduced a business rates holiday for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses.
This guidance is intended to support local authorities in administering the 2022/23 Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Relief Scheme.
Guidance on the operation of expanded retail discount 2020 to 2021 coronavirus response, announced at Budget 2020.
This is a tool that allows local authorities to calculate their business rates levy or safety net for 2024 to 2025.
This guidance is intended to support billing authorities in administering the 2023 Supporting Small Business Relief scheme.
The VOA wants to help customers provide the right information when making a Check, and the following focuses on how to do this for offices.
This guidance is intended to support local authorities in administering the business rates freeports relief scheme announced in the Budget on 3 March 2021.
We have introduced a business rates holiday for nurseries.
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