Appealing against your Rateable Value
If you disagree with your Rateable Value you may be able to appeal to the Valuation Office. The process is known as ‘making a proposal to alter the rating list’. You may appeal against the rateable value for your property if:
- you believe that your new Rateable Value from 1 April 2000 is incorrect.
- the Valuation Officer changes your Rateable Value for any reason.
- there has been a ‘material change in circumstances’ which you feel affects the value of your property, such as:
- a change in its physical state such as adding to or demolishing part of it
- a change in its use
- a physical change in the locality
- a change in the use of a neighbouring property
Outside Agents and Representatives
Some ratepayers and businesses instruct rating agents to act for them. However if you are unsure about trusting someone who has approached you, there is a very helpful leaflet produced by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and others with the support of the Valuation Office.
Time Restrictions for Making an Appeal
In general appeals against your 2000 list valuation can be made at any time before the next revaluation (due 1st April 2005). However there have been changes to the rules that mean that there are now limits to how far back the effect of any change in your rateable value can go.
Generally, the date from which your Rateable Value will change (the effective date) is the date of the actual change in value, but this may be limited to the start of the financial year in which action to change the Rateable Value is taken. (The financial year 2000/2001 is also divided into two for this restriction).
If you make your proposal to change your Rateable Value in the new rating list provided you make it by 30th September 2000 any change can be backdated to 1st April 2000.
For appeals made between 1st October 2000 and 31st March 2001 the date is restricted to 1st October 2000.
For appeals made after 31st March 2001 the earliest effective date is the beginning of the rate period in which an appeal is made, e.g. an appeal made in Jan 2002 can have its effect backdated to the date of the change or 1st April 2001 whichever is later.
Appeals should be made to the Valuation Office at the following address:
The Valuation Office
East Midlands Group
4th Floor
St Peters House
Gower Street
Derby
DE1 1JJOr telephone them on 01332 710800 for more information
You can even make an appeal on-line at http://www.voa.gov.uk/
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