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CLWYD West AM Darren Millar is backing 70 leading Welsh businesses and chambers of commerce, including Ruthin, which have jointly signed a letter to the Labour First Minister Carwyn Jones calling on him to extend the Small Business Rate Relief Scheme to effectively abolish business rates on rateable values up to PS12,000.

Over the following five years the weak economy and the subsequent fall in rental values means that current rental values bear little resemblance to current rateable values, GVA said.

Transitional arrangements, however, were implemented which limit the annual increase in 2010/2011 for all areas of the country, including Middlesbrough, to 5% for small properties (those with a rateable value below pounds 18,000) and 12.5% for large properties (those with a rateable at or above pounds 18,000.) While being unaware of the specific business concerned, the increase cannot only be due to the changes in the rateable value or the amount charged per rateable value.

In Wales, you would only qualify for 50% relief if your business had a rateable value of pounds 2,400 (yes, pounds 3,600 below the limit for England) and therefore a business with a rateable value of pounds 6,000 would only get 25% relief.

Businesses with rateable values of below pounds 5,000 are entitled to 50 per cent rate relief.

Jonathan Wright of property agent Irving Rice said 2005 Rateable Values are based on April 2003 rental values and that should be the first cross-check made by a ratepayer when considering whether to submit an appeal.

Plaid Cymru has pledged to scrap business rates for all enterprises with a rateable value of under PS10,000 relief with those between PS10,000 and PS15,000 also seeing their bills reduced.

This is reflected in a collapse of property values but not rateable values because the law requires that the relevant date for assessment is set at 1 April 2008.

TRADERS across England and Wales should continue to check their rateable values as business rates bills start landing on their doormats this month.

urgent create Extending for another year the empty property rates exemption for properties with a rateable value of less than pounds 18,000 is encouraging but it is still a short-term measure - and the sector needs future certainty if it is to grow and prosper.

A: When considering whether to appeal the rateable value of your property, as set by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), it is important to remember that an appeal can see rateable values go up, as well as down.

The scheme will provide 50 per cent off for firms with a rateable value under pounds 2,000, and a 25 per cent discount for companies with rateable values of between pounds 2,001 and pounds 5,000.

Small households of one or two people living in a home with a high rateable value are likely to save money with a meter.

Eligible small business properties with a rateable value of less than pounds 5, 000 will receive 50% rate relief and those with a rateable value of more than pounds 5, 000, but less than pounds 10, 000, will receive rate relief based on a sliding scale.