Apply for business rates hardship relief or discretionary rural rate relief 1Using the form2Declaration3About the business4Correspondence address5About the business (continued)6Audited accounts and other information Use this form to apply for business rates hardship relief or rural rate relief. This form will ask you to provide your name and position within the organisation your business rates account reference the full name of the ratepayer your business address and contact details correspondence address (if different from your current business address) type of business how many people are employed by the business and live within the district why you are applying for relief, including reasons that may have caused loss of trade or business how this relief can be shown as acceptable to the local council tax payers copies of the last three years' audited accounts for the business. This form must be completed by the ratepayer or someone authorised to do so on their behalf. Please have this information ready as pages time-out after one hour. Do not use your browser’s back button – if you need to go to a previous page click on the ‘previous’ button at the bottom of each page. Privacy Statement Dover District Council is a Data Controller under GDPR. In submitting this form we will collect and process your personal data. For information about your rights and how the Council uses your data, please view our Corporate and relevant service privacy notice which can be found on our Privacy page. DeclarationPlease check the box below to indicate your acceptance of the following statements before completing this form: I confirm the information that I will give on this form will be correct and true. I confirm that that I will notify you of any relevant changes that could result in an amendment to this relief within 21 days of the change. I understand that if I give information that is false this could lead to a penalty or legal proceedings being taken against me. I understand my data may be shared with other departments as permitted by law. I confirm I am the ratepayer or someone authorised to accept this declaration on the ratepayer's behalf. Declaration(Required) I understand and accept the above declaration Your name(Required)Position in organisation(Required)For example, secretary, treasurer About the businessBusiness rates account reference(Required)You can find this on your business rates billBusiness nameRatepayer's full name(Required)Contact phone number(Required)Business website address (if applicable)Business email address(Required) Enter email address Confirm email address Would you like to receive your business rates bills by email?(Required)You can receive your business rates bills by email rather than post. We will send all future business rates bills to the email address you have given above. If you change your email address you must let us know straight away. You can opt out of this at any time at dover.gov.uk/paperlessrates Yes No Address of the property for which you are applyingProperty address(Required) Address line 1 Address line 2 Town or city Postcode Correspondence addressIs the correspondence address the same as the address for which you are applying?(Required) Yes No Correspondence address(Required) Address line 1 Address line 2 Town or city Postcode About the business (continued)I am applying for(Required) Hardship relief Discretionary rural rate relief What type of business do you have?(Required)How many people are employed by the business?(Required)Full-timePart-timeHow many of these people live in the district?(Required)Full-timePart-timePlease explain why you are applying for relief and the reasons for loss of trade or business(Required)When did the situation start and how long is it likely to remain?(Required)How far away is your business from other similar businesses?(Required)Please provide details of amenities or services that your business supplies to the area(Required)Please explain how relief could be shown as acceptable to the local council tax payers*(Required) Audited accountsPlease upload copies of the last three years’ audited accounts for the business. If you don’t have audited accounts for the last year, please send un-audited accounts for this periodUpload audited accounts(Required) Drop files here or Select files Accepted file types: txt, pdf, doc, docx, rtf, jpg, jpeg, tif, tiff, bmp, png, xls, xlsx, Max. file size: 15 MB, Max. files: 3. Other informationPlease use this box to tell us any other information.If you have no further information to give, leave this box blank
