Rating and Recoveries
A CRITICAL TIME TO REVIEW RATEABLE VALUES: HARRIS LAMB CALLS ON LICENSEES TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION OVER GOVERNMENT’S HOSPITALITY BUSINESSES RATES ANNOUNCEMENT
With the news that hospitality and music venues in England will be given a 15% discount on their business rates bills from April, along with a two year freeze, Harris Lamb’s expert Licensed and Leisure team is urging clients to act immediately to ensure that the Rateable Values they have… Read More
RETAIL, HOSPITALITY AND LEISURE REDUCTIONS, TAXING ONLINE GIANTS AND WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE DRAFT RATING LIST: BUDGET 2025
Amid the leaks and speculation surrounding this week’s Budget was the news that the Government would also release the 2026 Draft Rating List, providing the commercial real estate market with advance knowledge of the impact that the upcoming Revaluation would have on their businesses. The takeaway headline from Chancellor… Read More
YEEMAN SHUM JOINS HARRIS LAMB’S BUSINESS RATES TEAM
Harris Lamb has appointed an experienced new surveyor to its Rating team as the business ramps up operations ahead of the forthcoming 2026 Revaluation. Yeeman Shum joins the business from Cushman & Wakefield, holding a LLB Law degree from Aston University and a Master’s degree in Real Estate from the… Read More
HARRIS LAMB SAVES BIRMINGHAM-BASED IP SOLUTIONS DISTRIBUTOR OVER £1MILLION IN RENT AND RATING REVIEW
Lease Advisory and Business Rates experts at Harris Lamb have saved an IT specialist more than £1million on its Birmingham premises over a five-year period after overseeing rent and rates reviews on its behalf. The business was instructed by , a distributor of IP solutions including… Read More
BAD NEWS AND GOOD NEWS: THE IMPACT OF BUDGET 2024 ON THE HOSPITALITY & LEISURE SECTOR
Business Rates specialists at Harris Lamb Property Consultancy have analysed the effects of the first Labour Budget for 14 years and are preparing to assist clients in understanding and reducing their Business Rate liability. Britain’s first female Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, announced a slashing of the Retail, Leisure and Hospitality Relief… Read More
HARRIS LAMB REDUCES RATES LIABILITY FOR MAJOR TELFORD BUSINESS BY £75,000
Rating specialists Harris Lamb have saved a commercial refrigeration firm in Telford almost £75,000 in business rates after it merged their three industrial rating assessments into one single assessment. The business, who manufacture and distribute ice making equipment, instructed Harris Lamb to undertake a Business Rates review of their premises,… Read More
HARRIS LAMB WARNS RATEPAYERS OVER PENALTIES BEING BROUGHT IN WITH THE NON-DOMESTIC RATING ACT 2023
Rating specialists at Harris Lamb have welcomed key aspects of the Non-Domestic Rating Act 2023 but are warning Ratepayers that requirements to provide annual updates on their properties could result in hefty fines if forgotten or disregarded. The Government has brought in new legislation affecting Ratepayers, with key changes in… Read More
GRADUATE SURVEYOR SUSAN BOYD JOINS HARRIS LAMB
Harris Lamb has enhanced its Professional team with the appointment of graduate surveyor Susan Boyd. Susan, who joins from Leicester-based Bird & Howes, where she was a a Rating surveyor, is relocating to Birmingham and will work alongside Harris Lamb’s Business Rates and Lease Advisory teams. She brings a Masters… Read More
INDUSTRIAL SECTOR SEES RATEABLE VALUES HIKED BY UP TO 70 PER CENT AS 2023 DRAFT RATING LIST IS PUBLISHED
The Valuation Office has issued the 2023 Draft Rating List, with business rates specialists at Harris Lamb seeing hikes of up to 70 per cent in some sectors as six years’ worth of activity has been assessed. The inevitable effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have seen significant increases in… Read More
HARRIS LAMB’S RATING TEAM WELCOMES EXTENDED SUPPORT FOR HOSPITALITY, LEISURE AND RETAIL SECTOR ANNOUNCED IN AUTUMN STATEMENT 22
Business Rates specialists at Harris Lamb have welcomed the Autumn Statement unveiled by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt today. The much-anticipated announcement today has outlined a raft of plans aimed at helping ratepayers, with particular support being aimed at the much-beleaguered hospitality, leisure and retail sector. Key takeaways include a freeze on… Read More
BUDGET 2021: A BID TO REBUILD A COVID-HIT COUNTRY
Rarely has a Budget been preceded by as much anticipation and trepidation as Rishi Sunak’s Covid Recovery Budget of 2021. We’ll leave the personal tax and corporation tax evaluations to the accountants, because like many businesses, our chief concern lies in the legislation around business rates and… Read More
LICENSED PROPERTY RATING SPECIALISTS SECURE £35,000 REDUCTION IN BUSINESS RATES FOR CORNISH PUB
Licensed Property Rating specialists have successfully reduced the Rateable Value of an award-winning Cornish pub by £35,000. The Licensed Premises Business Rates team at Harris Lamb worked alongside St Austell Brewery’s Pandora Inn in Restronguet near Falmouth to appeal against the £145,000 Rateable Value. Further to the Business… Read More
RATING SPECIALISTS WELCOME GOVERNMENT’S POSTPONEMENT OF THE 2021 BUSINESS RATES REVALUATION
Business Rates specialists at Harris Lamb have welcomed the Government’s announcement to postpone the 2021 revaluation, saying that it gives businesses and the Valuation Office time to assess the impact of Covid-19. Legislation had been introduced to bring the next revaluation forward by one year from 2022 to 2021, but ministers wanted to… Read More
HARRIS LAMB SECURES £53,000 REDUCTION IN BUSINESS RATES ASSESSMENT FOR CHESTERFIELD TANNERY
Rating experts at Harris Lamb have successfully challenged a Valuation Office assessment on behalf of a Chesterfield tannery, resulting in its business rates assessment being slashed by over £50,000. Working on behalf of Spire Leather, one of the few remaining traditional leather tanneries in the country, the business’… Read More
HARRIS LAMB OFFERS SUPPORT TO OFFICE AND INDUSTRIAL SECTORS TO ALLEVIATE COVID-19 DISRUPTION
Harris Lamb has been liaising with concerned clients within the industrial and office sector as the Government’s lockdown of the UK commenced. Business specialists within the company have been assisting clients with applications for empty rates and Section 44A relief amongst other measures in a bid to help firms safeguard… Read More