Open consultation

Local authority funding reform – Resetting the business rates retention system

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
• Published: 8 April 2025

Applies to England

Summary

A technical consultation on the approach to a reset of business rates baselines.

This consultation closes at
11:59pm on 2 June 2025

Consultation description

This technical consultation seeks views on the approach to delivering a business rates reset, updating government’s assessment of how much business rates are available through updating business rates baselines.

It follows on from information set out in the December 2024 consultation on Local authority funding reform: objectives and principles.

Documents

Local authority funding reform – Resetting the business rates retention system: technical consultation

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Annex 1: Treatment of reliefs under the alternative 'notional gross rates payable (GRP)' method example scenarios

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 55.9 KB

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Ways to respond

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Email to:

BRRSA@communities.gov.uk

Write to:

Local Government Finance
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Fry Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF

Published 8 April 2025