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Open consultation: Checking and challenging your rateable value
Open consultation
Checking and challenging your rateable value
Organisation:
Department for Communities and Local Government
Page history:
Published 5 December 2013
Policy:
Giving local authorities more control over how they spend public money in their area
Topical event:
Applies to:
England
This consultation closes at 3 March 2014 11:00pm
Summary
This consultation sets out the government's proposals to improve transparency in the business rates valuation and formal challenge system.
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Checking and challenging your rateable value: the government’s proposals to improve transparency in the business rates valuation and formal challenge system
Ref: ISBN 9781409840862 PDF, 1.76MB, 21 pages
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Consultation description
The rating system should provide an easy to use and prompt opportunity for ratepayers to understand their rateable value, challenge it if necessary and gain reductions where it is found to be too high. Under the current system, ratepayers cannot see the rental evidence on which rateable values are based and make large numbers of speculative challenges with little or no explanation of why they think their rateable value is wrong.
About 3 quarters of challenges result in no change, but the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) cannot identify those challenges until very late in the process. The resulting delays mean that those businesses whose rateable values are too high have to wait for refunds.
This consultation sets out the government’s proposals to reform the current system for explaining and challenging rateable values.
Find out all the latest about the Autumn Statement 2013.
Ways to respond
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Write to:
Nick Cooper
Department for Communities and Local Government
Zone 5/D1, Eland House
Bressenden Place
London
SW1E 5DU
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Published:
5 December 2013
Organisation:
Department for Communities and Local Government
Policy:
Giving local authorities more control over how they spend public money in their area
Topical event: