Apply for business rates hardship relief or discretionary rural rate relief

Use this form to apply for business rates hardship relief or rural rate relief.

This form will ask you to provide

your name and position within the organisation
your business rates account reference
the full name of the ratepayer
your business address and contact details
correspondence address (if different from your current business address)
type of business
how many people are employed by the business and live within the district
why you are applying for relief, including reasons that may have caused loss of trade or business
how this relief can be shown as acceptable to the local Council Tax payers
copies of the last three years' audited accounts for the business.

This form must be completed by the ratepayer or someone authorised to do so on their behalf.

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Declaration

Please check the box below to indicate your acceptance of the following statements before completing this form:

I confirm the information that I will give on this form will be correct and true.
I confirm that that I will notify you of any relevant changes that could result in an amendment to this relief within 21 days of the change.
I understand that if I give information that is false this could lead to a penalty or legal proceedings being taken against me.
I understand my data may be shared with other departments as permitted by law.
I confirm I am the ratepayer or someone authorised to accept this declaration on the ratepayer's behalf.

Declaration(Required)

I understand and accept the above declaration

Your name(Required)

Position in organisation(Required)

For example, secretary, treasurer

About the business

Business rates account reference(Required)

You can find this on your business rates bill

Business name

Ratepayer's full name(Required)

Contact phone number(Required)

Business website address (if applicable)

Business email address(Required)

Enter email address Confirm email address

Would you like to receive your business rates bills by email?(Required)

You can receive your business rates bills by email rather than post. We will send all future business rates bills to the email address you have given above. If you change your email address you must let us know straight away. You can opt out of this at any time at thanet.gov.uk/paperlessrates

Yes

No

Address of the property for which you are applying

Postcode of the property for which you are applying(Required)

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address(Required)

Address(Required)

House name or number Address line 1 Address line 2 Town or city Postcode

Correspondence address

Is the correspondence address the same as the address for which you are applying?(Required)

Yes

No

Postcode(Required)

Search Postcode

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address(Required)

Address(Required)

House name or number Address line 1 Address line 2 Town or city Postcode

About the business (continued)

I am applying for(Required)

Hardship relief

Discretionary rural rate relief

What type of business do you have?(Required)

How many people are employed by the business?(Required)

Full-time

Part-time

How many of these people live in the district?(Required)

Full-time

Part-time

Please explain why you are applying for relief and the reasons for loss of trade or business(Required)

When did the situation start and how long is it likely to remain?(Required)

How far away is your business from other similar businesses?(Required)

Please provide details of amenities or services that your business supplies to the area(Required)

Please explain how relief could be shown as acceptable to the local Council Tax payers*(Required)

Audited accounts

Please upload copies of the last three years' audited accounts for the business. If you don't have audited accounts for the last year, please send un-audited accounts for this period

Upload audited accounts(Required)

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Max. file size: 15 MB, Max. files: 3.

Other information

Please use this box to tell us any other information.

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Staff ID