The Non-Domestic Rates (Transitional Relief) (Scotland) Regulations 2024

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14.—(1) This regulation applies in relation to lands and heritages where the amount of rates payable in respect of the lands and heritages was reduced by any of the following as at 31 March 2023—

(a) regulation 3 (amount payable as rates – lands and heritages with a rateable value of £18,000 or less) of the 2022 Regulations,

(b) paragraph 3 or 4(1) of schedule 2 of the 1997 Act (relief from non-domestic rates for general stores etc. in rural settlements: Scotland), where entitlement to the reduction is lost on 1 April 2023 as a result of an increase in rateable value of the lands and heritages above the limit provided for in—

(i) article 3(1)(a) or, as the case may be, article 3(1)(b) of the 2005 Order, or

(ii) article 3(2) of the 2005 Order.

(2) Where the net notional liability in respect of any lands and heritages to which this regulation applies on any day in the relevant year is more than the transitional limit in respect of those lands and heritages on that day, calculated in accordance with paragraph (4), the amount payable as rates in respect of those lands and heritages on that day is the limit calculated in accordance with paragraph (4).

(3) The net notional liability of any lands and heritages to which this regulation applies on any day is equal to the notional liability calculated in accordance with regulation 8, after any reliefs have been applied, including under regulation 7.

(4) In respect of lands and heritages to which this regulation applies on any day—

(a) where the rateable value for that day exceeds the rateable value on 1 April 2023, the transitional limit is calculated in accordance with the formula—

(b) in any other case the transitional limit is calculated in accordance with the formula—

where—

A is the amount of relief granted under regulation 10 of the New and Improved Property Relief Regulations in respect of the day with reference to which the transitional limit is calculated, multiplied by 365,

CRV is the rateable value of the lands and heritages on the day with reference to which the transitional limit is calculated,

DA is the deemed amount within the meaning given in paragraph (5),

PF is the poundage figure of—

(i)

0.559 where the lands and heritages have a rateable value exceeding £100,000,

(ii)

0.545 where the lands and heritages have a rateable value exceeding £51,000 but not exceeding £100,000,

(iii)

0.498 where the lands and heritages have a rateable value of £51,000 or less,

RV is the rateable value of the lands and heritages on 1 April 2023, and

Z is the percentage of relief other than relief under regulation 10A of the New and Improved Property Relief Regulations granted in respect of the day with reference to which the transitional limit is calculated.

(5) For the purposes of this regulation the deemed amount in respect of any lands and heritages is the amount which would have been payable as rates in respect of those lands and heritages for the financial year ending 31 March 2023, had that amount been calculated on the basis of the rateable value of the lands and heritages on 31 March 2023, including any additional amounts of rates payable in terms of regulation 4 (amount payable as rates – lands and heritages with rateable value exceeding £51,000 but not exceeding £95,000) or 5 (lands and heritages with rateable value exceeding £95,000) of the 2022 Regulations, and after applying any reliefs.

(6) Where there is an entitlement to relief under both this regulation and regulation 7, relief under this regulation is to be applied to the amount of rates payable after regulation 7 is applied.

(7) Subject to paragraph (8), relief under this regulation may only be granted where an application is made in accordance with regulation 16.

(8) Where relief under regulation 14 of the 2023 Regulations has been granted in respect of the financial year 2023-24, no application need be made in respect of the relevant year.

(9) In this regulation “the 2005 Order” means the Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Areas and Rateable Value Limits)(Scotland) Order 2005(2).

(1)

Paragraph 4 was amended by section 28(4) of the Local Government in Scotland Act 2003 (asp 1).

(2)

S.S.I. 2005/103. Article 3 was amended by S.S.I. 2010/37.