Issue - meetings
National Non Domestic Rates – Applications for Discretionary Rate Relief
Meeting: 23/02/2015 - Cabinet (Item 12)
12 National Non Domestic Rates – applications for Discretionary Rate Relief 
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The Council has the discretion to award rate relief to charities or non-profit making bodies. It also has the discretion to remit an individual National Non-Domestic Rate (NNDR) liability in whole or in part on the grounds of hardship. The award of discretionary rate relief is based on policy and criteria agreed by the Executive in September 2013. New applications for relief have to be approved by the Cabinet. The report details new applications for relief received since the Executive last considered such applications on 26 August 2014.
Decision:
that the applications for discretionary rate relief detailed in Appendices 2 and 3 to the report from the Strategic Director, Regeneration and Growth be approved.
Minutes:
Councillor Mashari (Lead Member, Employment and Skills) detailed new applications for rate relief to charities or non-profit making bodies received since 26 August 2014 which the council had the discretion to award. The council also had the discretion to remit an individual National Non-Domestic Rate (NNDR) liability in whole or in part on the grounds of hardship. The award of discretionary rate relief was based on policy and criteria agreed by the Executive in September 2013.
RESOLVED:
that the applications for discretionary rate relief detailed in Appendices 2 and 3 to the report from the Strategic Director, Regeneration and Growth be approved.