Business rates - exemptions

About this service

Some premises are exempt from paying the unoccupied property rates of 50%. The exemptions are:

  1. First three months. Don't forget every property is exempt from unoccupied property rates for the first three months.
  2. Small Properties. With a rateable value under £2200.
  3. Listed Buildings

  4. Qualifying Industrial Buildings (Retail properties don't qualify)

    1. Factories
    2. Workshops
    3. Premises used for storage
    4. Warehouses
    5. Quarries and Mills

  5. Action by the Crown or Local Authority. E.g. Compulsory Purchase Order.
  6. Occupation prohibited by law, such as health & safety legislation.
  7. Personal Representative or Bankruptcy proceedings. Where the person responsible for the property only does so as a personal representative of a deceased person or as a Liquidator. Or the Ratepayer is subject to Bankruptcy proceedings.

You will need

Please check your Rate Bill first as often we have applied the exemption automatically in numbers 1-4 above. Otherwise:

  1. Decide which exemption your property is in.
  2. Let us know in writing.

Contact details

In person

Telephone

01722 434222

Fax

01722 434429

Email

revs&bens@salisbury.gov.uk

Postal address

Pennyfarthing House
18 Pennyfarthing Street
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP1 1HJ

Information:

Contact details:

Telephone:
01722 434222

Fax:
01722 434429

email:
revs&bens@salisbury.gov.uk...

Postal address:
Pennyfarthing House
18 Pennyfarthing Street
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP1 1HJ