{"id":94,"date":"2025-10-15T08:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ashfieldaccoun.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2025-10-15T08:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:05:24","slug":"stay-on-top-of-your-business-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashfield-accountancy.co.uk\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Stay on Top of Your Business Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As a business owner, you might already know that your property&#8217;s <i>rateable value<\/i> underpins how much you&#8217;ll pay in business rates, a recurring cost no one loves. But here&#8217;s a timely heads-up from the Valuation Office Agency (VOA): the next revaluation is coming, and now&#8217;s the best time to get plugged in. The VOA importantly reminds us: &#8220;It&#8217;s important to remember though that a property&#8217;s rateable value is not the same as its business rates bill.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Changing &#8211; and When?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The VOA update rateable values every three years to reflect what similar properties are fetching in the current market. Here&#8217;s the timeline to bookmark:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Valuation Date: 1 April 2024 (that&#8217;s the snapshot used for setting rateable values).<\/li>\n<li>Revaluation Takes Effect: 1 April 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Deadline to Challenge: If something&#8217;s off in your valuation, you&#8217;ve got until 31 March 2026 to flag it up with the VOA.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why Sign Up for a Valuation Account?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By registering for a business rates valuation account, you can:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Check the details the VOA already holds about your property.<\/li>\n<li>Confirm how the valuation was calculated so there are no surprises.<\/li>\n<li>Let the VOA know if there&#8217;s anything inaccurate, but don&#8217;t wait, the cut-off is fast approaching.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>As Alan Colston, the VOA&#8217;s Chief Valuer, puts it:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We publish future valuations a few months before they come into effect &#8211; businesses can check that the facts we hold about their property are correct. They can also estimate their future bill and plan their future business rates liability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With a clearer view of your future liability, you can budget better and avoid nasty surprises come April 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Thoughts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already, set up your business rates valuation account today and &#8220;claim&#8221; your property. Take a quick peek now, and you&#8217;ll thank yourself later when your future rates bills are clearer, and you&#8217;ve got that deadline firmly marked in the diary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a business owner, you might already know that your property&#8217;s rateable value underpins how much you&#8217;ll pay in business rates, a recurring cost no one loves. But here&#8217;s a timely heads-up from the Valuation Office Agency (VOA): the next revaluation is coming, and now&#8217;s the best time to get plugged in. The VOA importantly [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashfield-accountancy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashfield-accountancy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashfield-accountancy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashfield-accountancy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashfield-accountancy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashfield-accountancy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashfield-accountancy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashfield-accountancy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashfield-accountancy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}