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Are You Paying Too Much in Business Rates?

Let our independent specialists review your commercial property’s rateable value and identify potential savings.

✓ Rateable value reviews

✓ VOA challenges and appeals

✓ Independent expert advice

Request Your Free Rates Review

OUR VISION

WE PROVIDE BUSINESS RATES APPEALS

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The Benefits of Reducing Business Rates

Improved Cashflow

Lower Costs: Reduced rates cut fixed expenses, freeing up capital for reinvestment.
Better Liquidity: More cash for day-to-day operations, debt repayment, and growth projects.

Increased Competitiveness

Lower Prices: Pass savings onto customers and gain market share.
More Innovation: Invest in new products, services, and technology.

Support for Key Sectors

Retail & Hospitality: Reduced property costs help these high-overhead sectors survive and grow.
Local Economies: Keeps businesses trading, supports jobs, and reduces high street vacancies.

Growth Opportunities

Business Expansion: Open new locations, upgrade premises, and create jobs.
Startup Support: Lower barriers for new businesses and entrepreneurs.

Boost to Property Development

Incentivises Investment: Encourages commercial property development and regeneration.
Fewer Vacancies: More affordable rents attract tenants and revitalise town centres.

Economic Stability

Crisis Cushion: Helps businesses weather downturns and protect jobs.
Sustainable Growth: Supports long-term investment and stronger local economies.

Job Creation

More Hiring Power: Savings can be reinvested into the workforce through new roles or higher wages.

Fairer Tax System

Level Playing Field: Reductions help smaller businesses compete and grow.
Reducing business rates isn’t just a short-term fix — it’s a catalyst for growth, innovation, and stronger local communities.

OUR PROCESS

STEP 1

Schedule Your Free Assessment

When you schedule your assessment, one of our experts will call you and go over the details for your business and your property, giving you a rough estimate of what you're overpaying.

Step 3

Survey & Valuation

We will conduct a full & comprehensive survey of your commercial property and provide a valuation, so that we can find out if you've been overpaying or are exempt from paying business rates.

STEP 2

Audit & Payment

Prior to being assigned a case manager at The Rating Surveyors, who will be your main point of contact, your case will be reviewed in the Survey Department to ensure that it meets the criteria for submitting your case to the VOA - ensuring that your rateable value is correct and fair, and any available rebate can be applied for. Once we've processed your service fee, they will guide you through the process and begin opening an investigation with the valuation office agency.

Step 4

Claim Your Rebate

After we've conducted the commercial survey, finalised your valuation and confirmed you've been overpaying, we will work with you to claim a refund on past payments made to the local authority.

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