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Electronic Billing Authority Report (eBAR): How to add properties to the rating list

Stephanie O'Neill November 13, 2019

If you have identified a property in your Authority which needs to be added or altered on the Rating list, the next step is to gather enough detailed, accurate information about that property so that an electronic billing authority report (eBAR) can be submitted to

What business rates teams can expect in the year ahead

Alistair Townsend November 1, 2019

Following the presentation I delivered at the IRRV National Annual Conference, I wanted to reiterate five key challenges that business rates teams are most likely to face in the year ahead. Rates Retention Reform On the 3rd October this year, the local government finance settlement

Ratings Glossary

Alistair Townsend October 21, 2019

Rates retention is an increasingly important focus for Council Revenues and Finance teams. With the appointment of a number of new practitioners to this area, we thought it timely to share some key industry terms and acronyms. WILKS HEAD & EVE – RATINGS GLOSSARY Annual

2021 Business Rates Revaluation – what can Billing Authorities expect?

Alistair Townsend September 5, 2019

RECAP OF 2017 BUSINESS RATES REVALUATION The 2017 business rates revaluation carried out by the Valuation Office Agency covered 1.97 million properties with a collective rateable value of £63 billion. Across England as a whole it led to a 11% increase in the rateable value

Maximising business rates yield – Four areas for consideration

Alistair Townsend August 19, 2019

Non-domestic rate collections in England are up with a 3.5% increase in 2018-19 and £25.3bn collected, representing an additional £856 million on the previous year. Looking at the financial year ahead, we expect this trend to continue and possibly increase further as the rates retention

Challenging rateable values of council owned property – why do it?

Alistair Townsend August 6, 2019

It’s easy to forget that Billing Authorities are themselves subject to rateable values on the numerous properties they own. Typical assets include Council offices, car parks, schools, libraries, leisure centres, community centres and the more specialist properties such as public conveniences and crematoriums. Wilks Head

Missing Assessments: Top 5 reasons properties are missed off or undervalued on the Rating List

Stephanie O'Neill July 22, 2019

With over 1.9 million non-domestic rateable properties in England and nearly 1,000 different classification of property types on the local list compiled by the Valuation Office, it is a huge undertaking to make sure every property is not only included, but valued correctly. With Billing

How to improve the accuracy of your losses on appeals forecasting

Alistair Townsend July 15, 2019

The practice of forecasting for losses on appeals within Billing Authorities has been in place since rates retention came to the fore in 2013. What do we mean by forecasting for losses on appeal? The Valuation Office Agency is required to value all business property

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