1. What are Business Rates?
Business Rates are charged on most non-domestic properties - mainly business properties - such as shops, offices, pubs, beach huts, car parking spaces, warehouses and factories, self-catering and holiday let accommodation and some home based businesses.
Properties exempt from rating include:
- farm buildings and land (excluding buildings used as offices or for other business activities)
- fish farms
- places of religious worship
- buildings used for training or welfare of disabled people
If your beach hut is your only non-domestic property, you will currently be entitled to a 100% discount.
Business Rates pay for the same services as Council Tax.