Business rates reductions and exemptions

Properties exempt from rating

Schedule 5 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 details that the following properties that are occupied may be deemed exempt from the rating list:

  • Agricultural Land and Premises
  • Fish Farms
  • Places of Religious Worship
  • Certain Property of Trinity House
  • Sewers
  • Property of Drainage Authorities
  • Parks and Recreation Grounds
  • Property used for the Disabled
  • Air Raid Protection Works
  • Swinging Moorings
  • Road Crossings over Watercourses
  • Properties used by Visiting Forces

Other occupied properties that may also be deemed exempt from the rating list are:

  • Election Meeting Rooms and Polling Stations
  • Properties used by Diplomatic Staff
  • Public Highways

If you think that your property may be qualify as exempt from the rating list, please contact us or make an appeal to the Valuation Office Agency. Further information on the grounds for making an appeal, and on how to make one, can be found on the VOA website.

Further details regarding these exemptions from central Government.

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Business rates team

Telephone: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 9am – 12noon, Tuesday 10am - 12noon

Address: Lythalls Lane Industrial Estate
Coventry
CV6 6FL

Telephone: 024 7683 2525