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Consultation outcome: Checking and challenging your rateable value

 

 

 

 

 

Consultation outcome

Checking and challenging your rateable value

 

From:

Department for Communities and Local Government

History:

Updated 31 July 2014, see all updates

Added open letter to those who responded to the consultation paper "checking and challenging your rateable value".

31 July 2014 12:00pm

First published.

5 December 2013 12:00am

Part of:

Autumn Statement 2013 and Giving local authorities more control over how they spend public money in their area

Applies to

England

This consultation has concluded

Download the full outcome

Business rates: open letter to those who responded to the consultation paper "checking and challenging your rateable value"

Published: 31 July 2014PDF, 141KB, 1 page

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Detail of outcome

Open letter to those who responded to the consultation paper “checking and challenging your rateable value”.

Original consultation

This consultation ran from 5 December 2013 12:00am to
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.

Documents

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.


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