You can apply for a percentage reduction off your business rates bill if you have:
- 1 property and the rateable value is less than £15,000
- more than 1 property and:
- none of the other properties have a rateable value above £2,899
- the total rateable value of all your properties is less than £28,000
What you get
- If your property's rateable value is £12,000 or less, you do not pay any business rates
- If your rateable value is between £12,001 and £15,000, your rates bill is calculated using the small business multiplier and relief will go down gradually from 100% to 0%. For example if your rateable value is £13,500, you’ll get 50% off your bill. If your rateable value is £14,000, you’ll get 33% off.
- If your rateable value is between £15,000 and £50,999, the small business multiplier is automatically used to calculate your bill (even if you have more than one property) but no percentage reduction is given.
The revaluation of properties from 2026 may mean ratepayers may lose some or all of their small business rates relief as a result of the change in their rateable value. Support may be applicable for this loss under the Business Rates Relief: 2026 Supporting Small Business Relief, local authority guidance - GOV.UK
To support ratepayers who lose some or all of their small business rates relief due to the 2026 revaluation, the new supporting small business relief scheme will make sure that the increase in the bills of these ratepayers is limited to a cash value of £800 per year or the relevant caps within transitional relief - GOV.UK whichever is the greater. This cash maximum increase makes sures that ratepayers do not face large bill increases in 2026/27, after transitional relief and small business rate relief (as applicable) have been applied.
Find out more about the rateable value
If you qualify for another type of mandatory relief (such as charitable relief), you will not be able to get small business rate relief and the ordinary non-domestic rating multiplier will be used to calculate your rates.