Small business rate relief

You can apply if:

• your business only uses one property
• your property’s rateable value is less than £15,000
• your business uses more than one property but meets certain criteria

You cannot get small business rate relief and charitable rate relief at the same time. We will decide which kind of relief you are eligible for.

If you use more than one property in England

When you get a second property, you will keep getting the relief you already get on your main property for 3 years (as long as you took on the second property on or after 27 November 2025)

You can still get small business rate relief on your main property after this, if:

• each of your other properties has a rateable value of less than £2900
• the total rateable value of all your properties is less than £20,000

You can only get relief:

• on one property
• if that property is occupied

How to apply

You can apply at any time, except if your RV has been reduced from over £51,000 to under £51,000. You must apply within one month of the day you were served with the notice of the RV reduction.

Contact us at business.rates@reading.gov.uk to apply