Support for businesses

Business Rates Payers

If you are a business ratepayer and would like more information on business rates for current year, rates relief or you would like to apply for a business rates account, see here.

Do you think you may be eligible for Business Rates Relief?

If so, we recommend that you contact our Business Rates colleagues directly:

Business Rates

Our Business Rates colleagues advise this because they have identified that some Rating Agents are actively targeting businesses in Newham to offer their service to help businesses to get a rate reduction. These Agents operate by asking rate-paying businesses to sign up with their service on the basis that they can get them relief on their business rates. If their application is successful then the Agent will then charge the business up to 50% of the relief over a 2 - 3 year period. Whilst this kind of practice is not illegal, it is misleading as all ratepayers can seek advice directly from our Business Rates team.

If you make a claim for Business Rates relief directly with our Business Rates team and your application is successful then you will be able to keep 100% of any savings identified. Therefore, we recommend that you avoid using third-party Rating Agents and deal directly with the Council’s Business Rates team.