Decision details
Business Rates Discretionary Relief Policy
PDF 106 KBDecision Maker: Lead Cabinet member for Resources
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
The purpose of this report is to request that the Lead Cabinet Member for Finance formally adopt a revised policy for the granting of Discretionary Rate Relief to Business properties.
Changes to eligibility criteria for the Covid19 Additional Relief Fund (CARF) have been made to encourage uptake.
Decision:
To adopt the updated policy as shown in Appendix A.
Reasons for the decision:
Insufficient interest has been gained to from the first application window to exhaust available funding and so amendments are required prior to a further application window being launched to encourage businesses to apply for the support available.
Alternative options considered:
None.
Publication date: 10/06/2022
Date of decision: 10/06/2022
Effective from: 18/06/2022
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