Sports: Business Rates
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he made an assessment of the potential merits o introducing business rates relief for community sports clubs comparable to that available for public houses.
Answered by Treasury
Community sports clubs are eligible for the new permanently lower multipliers for eligible RHL properties. These provide nearly £1 billion per year of support to the RHL sector and benefit over 750,000 properties.
The Government has introduced a support package worth £4.3 billion to protect ratepayers seeing their bills increase because of the revaluation. This includes the Supporting Small Business scheme which caps bill increases for the smallest businesses losing some or all of their small business rates relief, rural rate relief, or RHL relief.
Properties mainly used for charitable purposes, such as by a community amateur sports club, may also be eligible for charitable rate relief which gives up to 80% off a business rates bill.
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