Business Rates

Thank you for participating in Saqib Bhatti MP’s Business Rates Survey.

The survey is aimed at local businesses in the Meriden constituency and is part of the Treasury’s business rates consultation over the summer. (Responses are also welcome from businesses beyond the constituency and any stakeholders who may be interested).

The Business Rates Survey will collect the views of local businesses on the current rates system and on possible ideas for reform. The responses will feed into the Treasury’s national consultation which will consider respondents’ views when shaping future policy.

Business Rates Survey

Current Reliefs
The Business Rates Multiplier
Valuations and Transitional Reliefs
Plant and Machinery
Maintaining the Accuracy of Rating Lists
The Billing Process
Alternatives
Your details

	1) Do you receive any form of Business Rates Relief?
Yes	Yes
No	No

1a) If 'yes', what relief/s do you receive?

	2) Do you feel the current system of reliefs is fair to your business?
Yes	Yes
No	No
Not sure	Not sure

2a) If 'no', how do you think it could be fairer for your business?

	3) If you have received reliefs, have you found that the rent you pay for your commercial property has increased over the years as a result of this?
Yes (I do not own the property)	Yes (I do not own the property)
No (I do not own the property)	No (I do not own the property)
No	No

	4) Do you think your landlord would increase your rent if they became aware you were entitled to greater reliefs?
Yes	Yes
No	No
Not sure	Not sure

	5) The local authority and the Treasury work together on the Business Rates system. Do you think the local authority should have more, less or the same level control? (Control: determining business rates reliefs and exemptions)
More	More
Less	Less
The same	The same
Unsure	Unsure