
On 23rd July 2010, the Government brought into force new regulations to make Small Business Rates Relief more generous for one year, starting from 1st October 2010. This has been extended until the 31st March 2014.
Revaluation 2010 and Transitional Relief

All rateable values are reassessed every five years at a general revaluation. The current rating list is based on the 2010 revaluation.
Sharing Of Information

We are required under section 6 of the Audit Commission Act 1998 to participate in the National Fraud Initiative (NFI). NNDR Data will be provided to the Audit Commission for NFI and will be used for cross-system and cross authority comparison for the prevention and detection of fraud.
We advise liable persons or organisations that the data held by the authority in respect of your liability will be used for cross-system and cross authority comparison for the prevention and detection of fraud.
For further information on data matching please visit the Information Commissioner's Office by clicking
here.
The Audit Commission's code of practice on data matching is available
here.

In 2011/12 we achieved an NNDR collection rate of 98.7%.