Schedule of payments for certain backdated liability

Ratepayers who face certain backdated rates liability may be able to discharge that liability over up to 8  years by agreement with their billing authority.

This may be be possible if the backdated liability has arisen as a result of an alteration to a ratings list which:

• means a hereditament is shown on that list for the first time
• has effect from a day that is at least 33 months prior to the date the alteration is made;
• is made on or before 31st March 2010; and
• is not the result of a proposal by an interested person made under the Non-Domestic Rating (Alteration of Lists and Appeals) (England) Regulations 2005.

To be eligible, ratepayers must have occupied one or more properties affected by the type of rating list adjustment above, within the billing authority area, between the effective date of the list alteration and the date it was actually made, for 33 months or more.Ratepayers are not eligible if they were previously liable for rates in respect of a property "preceeding" the new property assessment (i.e a property that forms a part of a new merged property or part of a propertythat has been split into two or more properties).

With the agreement of their billing authority, eligible ratepayers will be able to discharge any outstanding liability that accrued between the effective date of the relavent list alteration and the date the alteration was made  over a period of up to 8 years.

Last updated 31/03/2009 09:39:10

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