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#2026/2472026 Yılı Yabancı Değerlendirme (Nitelikli Perakende, Konaklama veya Eğlence Mülkü Tanımı) Yönetmelikleri (Değişiklik)

🇬🇧United Kingdom··Statutory Instrument·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

The 2026 Regulations update the rules about what qualifies as a retail, hospitality, or leisure business for lower business rates. Now, businesses that mainly operate as marinas, wharfs, piers, or jetties can qualify for these lower rates if they meet other criteria. This change affects businesses in the maritime sector and their ability to reduce their business rates.

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Key Changes

  • Marinas, wharfs, piers, and jetties can now qualify for lower business rates.
  • These businesses are removed from the list of excluded purposes.
  • The definition of 'qualifying retail, hospitality or leisure hereditament' is expanded.

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Remove marinas, wharfs, piers, and jetties from the excluded purposes list in Schedule 1 to the Non-Domestic Rating (Definition of Qualifying Retail, Hospitality or Leisure Hereditament) Regulations 2025 when determining qualifying hereditament status

Local authorities and rating authorities responsible for business rates assessment
operational
high

Reassess hereditaments wholly or mainly used as marinas, wharfs, piers, or jetties to determine if they qualify for lower business rates multiplier under the 2025 Regulations, provided other qualifying criteria are met

Local authorities and rating authorities responsible for business rates calculation
operational
high

Apply the lower business rates multiplier to qualifying hereditaments used as marinas, wharfs, piers, or jetties if all other requirements of the Non-Domestic Rating (Definition of Qualifying Retail, Hospitality or Leisure Hereditament) Regulations 2025 are satisfied

Local authorities responsible for business rates assessment and collection
operational

Affected Parties

Marina operatorsWharf and pier businesses+1 more…

Tags

business rates,retail,hospitality