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If you鈥檙e starting up or relocating a business to an enterprise zone you could qualify for business rates relief.

Eligibility

Whether you鈥檙e eligible for relief and how much you鈥檒l get will depend on:

• the local council鈥檚 rules for the enterprise zone

• when the enterprise zone was started

• when you started your business in or moved it to the enterprise zone

What you鈥檒l get

The council works out how the relief is applied. You could get up to 拢55,000 in relief per year over 5 years.

How to get enterprise zone relief

to:

• check whether it offers business rates relief

• find out how to get it

Contact your local council to check if you can get any other types of business rates relief on top of enterprise zone relief.

If your circumstances change

Report changes to make sure you鈥檙e paying the right amount and do not get a backdated increase in your bill or overpay.

Contact your local council if:

• your property becomes empty

• you get another property

• you make any changes to your property that would increase its value - for example, extending or renovating it
• the nature of your business changes or it moves to different premises

If the amount of enterprise zone relief you鈥檙e eligible for changes, you鈥檒l usually need to pay your new rate starting from the day your circumstances changed.

If you think you should be getting enterprise zone relief but are not

Contact your local council if you鈥檙e not getting enterprise zone relief and you think you鈥檙e eligible for it.

If you鈥檙e not eligible for enterprise zone relief

You may be eligible for another type of business rate relief. For example, if:

• you have a small business

• you have a retail, hospitality or leisure business

• you are in financial difficulty

Check what other reliefs you may be eligible for.