Freedom of Information FAQs - Business Rates

What sets of open data about Business Rates are available?

1. General list of business properties in the Bradford District
2. Credits held against Business Rate accounts
3. New Business Rate accounts created in the last month

You can view these data sets in the related documents section on this page.

Below is a description of these three data sets.

1) General list of business properties in the Bradford District 

This is a list of Business properties in the Bradford District, as held by Bradford Council’s Business Rates department in May 2018 (next due to be updated in November 2018). This list includes:

• The name of the company liable for Business Rates at the property which are not exempt under section 40. 
• The date the company was made liable for Business Rates at the property. 
• Property use (such as workshop, offices, public house, warehouse) 
• Any Business Rate Relief / Exemption the company gets for the property 
• Whether the property is currently occupied by the company or not.

2) Credits held against Business Rate accounts

These are standard management reports produced every two months and will usually be posted by 5th of the month. It shows the current credits held against the account. We are unable to provide the year the credit falls into.

Credit list:

This report is checked and monies returned to customers once the working procedures have been followed.

Credits due to vacations are returned once authorisation from the customer is received, these are regularly followed up to ensure monies are returned.

Credits due to overpayments are refunded when they appear on this list.

Credits relating to valuation changes are returned as soon as any interest has been calculated, usually within 20 days of the council being notified of the change.

Write on report:

This contains credits that are written on to cover amounts that remain unclaimed after our procedures have been followed.
Please note: We are only able to produce this list from 1 April 2008 following a system conversion.

3) New Business Rate accounts created in the last month

This list, published monthly on about the 20th of each month, shows all new accounts set up whether it is occupied, empty or exempt. The list includes ratepayer name where this is not an individual, Address, Rateable Value and property description.