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Business rate relief
Rural businesses
You may be eligible for a discount on your business rates if you're the only Post Office, general store, public house, agricultural premises and petrol station and it has a rateable value of:
- £8,500 or less for post offices, general stores and agricultural premises
- £12,500 or less for public houses or petrol station
You premises will also need to be in one of the following areas:
- Bobbing Borden
- Boughton-Under-Blean
- Bredgar Doddington
- Dunkirk
- Eastchurch
- Eastling
- Graveney and Goodnestone
- Hartlip
- Hernhill
- Lower Halstow
- Leysdown
- Lynsted
- Luddenham
- Newington
- Milstead
- Norton and Buckland
- Newnham
- Ospringe
- Oare
- Rodmersham
- Selling
- Sheldwich
- Stalisfield
- Teynham
- Throwley
- Tonge
- Tunstall
- Upchurch
Applying
You can apply for rural business rates relief by downloading the rural business rates relief application form (PDF 222kb). You'll need:
- your business rates reference number
- the address of your premises
Once you've completed your application, you'll need to email it to our business rates team at ndr@swale.gov.uk.
For alternative ways to send us your application, including by post, you can visit our contact us page.
What happens next
Once you've applied for rural business rates relief, we'll:
- update your business rates account
- issue you with an updated business rates bill within 21 days
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