Written Question·Treasury·UIN 104787

Business Rates: Tax Allowances

Tabled: 12 January 2026
Answered: 20 January 2026

Question

Paul Holmes

ConservativeHamble Valley

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of uprating the monetary thresholds for (a) small business rate relief and (b) rural rate relief Rateable Value in the 2026 revaluation cycle in line with t

Answer

Dan Tomlinson
Small Business Rate Relief (SBRR) is available to businesses with a single property below a set RV. Eligible property under £12,000 will receive 100 per cent relief, which means around a third of properties in England pay no business rates at all. There i...

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