Help and advice to get your rates right
Mayweather Associates is an established national company, we provide commercial property rating help and advice, ensuring that your business rate liability is accurate, fair and reasonable.
Our specialist Business Rates consultants help occupiers and owners manage and mitigate their business rates liabilities.
Our experience and expertise covers a wide range of properties and sectors across the country - including offices, industrial, leisure and retail premises, as well as specialist properties including utilities etc.
So, if you recently received a Business Rates demand then we can help by:
Reviewing your current Business Rates liabilities and challenge the Government Agency (the Valuation Office) wherever we think their records and valuation bases are wrong.
Ascertaining if there are any Business Rates reliefs and exemptions which you could claim – there could also be reductions in your liabilities if your property and its occupants are affected by a nearby development works etc.
Our Business Rates Services
We offer businesses a bespoke service tailored to their specific needs, whether this is in respect of a single property or a national portfolio, placing appeals, managing accounts, providing reports and recommendations or appearing as an expert at Tribunal.
Rates Appeals
Valuing and contesting business rates assessments throughout England, Wales and Scotland, we can ensure rateable values are kept to a minimum. Factual errors, incorrect analysis of evidence, revisions to statute and case law or physical changes in a locality, can lead to inaccuracies in business rates valuations and our surveys can assist in getting these corrected.
Business rates relief
Our business rates guide explores whether your business is paying more than it should, and how a trusted business rates advisory team can help you unlock reliefs, exemptions and strategic savings.
What are Business Rates?
Every property that is used (or partly used) for commercial purposes will be required to pay Business Rates, also known as Non-Domestic Rates. This form of tax is charged on properties such as offices, dental surgeries, shops, pubs, warehouses and factories.
How are Business Rates calculated?
Business rates are calculated by HMRC’s Valuation Office Agency (VOA).
Can I Appeal?
Many businesses are unknowingly overpaying their business rates every year. Why is this? It all comes down to whether your Rateable Value is correct and that depends on the VOA holding accurate information about your property details.
For the VOA to calculate your RV accurately they would need to visit and gather all the information about every property, during the time of the valuation date. This is extremely hard to do and so they make informed estimates instead.
How can we help?
We know that business rates are a huge expense and yet many businesses still have no idea that they are overpaying.
Rating valuations can be complex and appealing your business rates is both time consuming and confusing. At Mayweather Associates we handle the whole process on your behalf, leaving you with more time and stress free to focus on your business.
Get in touch
Telephone: 0121 4011614
E-mail: info@mayweatherassociates.co.uk
Address: 24-26 Regent Place, Birmingham B1 3NJ