HISTORIC RATES AUDIT

Historic Rates Audit

Overview

We have a specialist rating audit team with extensive knowledge in forensic and historical analysis of business rates. We will research and analyse your business rates history to ensure that you have not been overpaying your rates liability. This practice will more often than not highlight discrepancies and enable us to secure you a refund on your historic payments, in addition to potential savings going forward. We can recover significant funds that were wrongly paid to billing authorities and retrieve monies held by billing authorities that should have been refunded to ratepayers. Our historic rates audit service even covers properties that you no longer occupy. Some examples of the most common mistakes include:

Incorrect application of transitional relief

Unclaimed credit balances

Failure to issue transitional relief certificates

Failure to apply material change in circumstance allowances

Failure to apply charitable relief

Failure to process Rateable Value reduction

Unenforceable backdated rates bills

Our team provides a comprehensive service for small individual properties to large portfolios. The process is fast and efficient, with the majority of cases being settled within a matter of weeks. There is also minimal impact on your time, as we manage the case submission and any negotiations with the relevant authorities, to conclusion. We do not need to take up any of your time in lengthy face to face meetings.

Our historical audit service offers a different perspective on business rates. A quick and simple instruction gives you the following benefits:

We review all allowances and legislation as far back as 1990, we cross reference with freedom of information requests and specific background checks.

Any discrepancies are flagged to the appropriate local council’s office.

We coordinate with the appropriate council on your behalf.

When we are successful, we arrange payment to your nominated business

Only once you have received any savings as a result of the Audit do we charge fees based on a percentage of the saving. In the event that there is no saving, then no fees are payable under any circumstances. You simply go away with the peace of mind that your bills are correct

What do you have to do?

Please contact us on 0203 928 1128 and we will email you our one page agreement and Terms of Engagement so we can contact the council on your behalf and then sit back and let us do all the work for you.

How long does it take?

The process is fully dependant on the council’s response time which is usually within 10-14 days and if successful, we have refunds in our clients’ accounts soon after.

The service is not associated in any way with conventional rating appeals so, if your business is dealing with its rates appeal already through another rating agent, we can complement this work by providing you with a business rates health check. The process is simple and non-intrusive, as there are no site visits required, no lengthy appeals procedures and no paperwork for you to have to locate from your archives. You simply give us the instruction to act for you and we will do the rest.

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HISTORIC RATES AUDIT