Small business rate relief
Eligible businesses with rateable values of below £6,000 will get 50% rate relief on their liability. This relief will decrease on a sliding scale of 1% for every £100 of rateable value over £6,000, up to £12,000. The relief is available to ratepayers with either:
one property,
or one main property and other additional properties, providing the additional properties do not have individual rateable values of more than £2,600, and the combined rateable value of all the properties is under £17,999 (or £25,499 in London). The threshold for the combined rateable value is dependent on the location of the main property.
In addition to this relief on liability, eligible businesses with rateable values of between £12,000 and £17,999 (or between £17,999 and £25,499 in London) will have their liability calculated using the small business multiplier.
Mandatory and discretionary rate relief
80% mandatory rate relief is available to registered charities or charities exempted from registration as a charity. Registered Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs) are also entitled if the use of the club is wholly or mainly for charitable purposes.
Non-profit making organisations have no automatic entitlement, however we may decide to give discretionary relief. Your organisation must be charitable, religious or concerned with education, social welfare, science, literature or the fine arts. Or the property must be used by a non-profit-making organisation wholly or mainly for the purpose of recreation.
Decisions are made on a case-by-case basis, and judged on a set of policy guidelines and criteria. Download an application form from this page.
Contact
Business Rates Section
London Borough of Hounslow
PO Box 185
Hounslow
TW3 4WD
Email: BusinessRates@hounslow.gov.uk
Telephone: 020 8583 5708