The National Non-Domestic Rate, NNDR or Business Rates, as they
are more commonly known, were introduced in 1990 to replace locally
set general rates.
Although Suffolk Coastal issues the bill and collects your
Business Rates, the total amount collected across the country goes
into a central rate pool for England. This is managed by the
Government's Department for Communities and Local Government, which
redistributes the funds to local authorities like Suffolk Coastal
and Suffolk County Council (as part of the annual formula grant
settlement) and other bodies like police and fire authorities.
This money goes towards paying for the services that local
authorities and these other bodies provide - all businesses benefit
from these services.
In this section ...
Your Business Rates
bill
Information about how your Business Rates
bill is calculated.
Rateable value
How to find out your rateable value and how to make an appeal to
the Valuation Office Agency (VOA).
Business Rate
reliefs
Information about Small Business Rate
Relief and other rate reliefs.
Who pays Business
Rates?
Information about who has to pay Business
Rates and the types of property that are liable.
How to pay your Business
Rates
Details of the ways available for you to pay your Business
Rates.
What happens if I do not pay my Business
Rates?
Information about the steps Suffolk Coastal will take to recover
outstanding Business Rate payments.
Moving your business
If
you are moving into, out of or within the Suffolk Coastal area you
need to notify us.
Manage your Business Rates account
online
Sign-up to manage your Business Rates
account online.
Business Rates deferral
scheme
Government scheme (now closed) that allowed you to spread the
payment of increases in your 2009/2010 business rates bill over
three years.
Contact us
For more information or enquiries about Business Rates you can
contact Suffolk Coastal’s Business Rates team by:
Telephone: 01394
444544
Email:
businessrates@suffolkcoastal.gov.uk
Fax: 01394 444247
Business Rates Team
Suffolk Coastal District Council
Melton Hill
Woodbridge IP12 1AU