Following the creation of a Unitary council for Wiltshire, there is a need for a harmonisation of the practices employed by the pre-existing four councils in respect of applications for discretionary rate relief, to ensure consistency, affordability, and fairness of approach across Wiltshire.
There are a variety of discretionary reliefs that the Council may award, but by their very nature, any discretionary reliefs awarded will have cost implications as only mandatory relief and small business rate relief are funded from the national non-domestic rate pool.
This paper deals specifically with setting out the discretionary rate relief policy and protocols.
Work was undertaken separately to review the policies for hardship rate relief and this sister policy was submitted and agreed by Cabinet as a separate agenda item, in June 2010
Decision type: Non-key
Decision status: Recommendations Approved