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Pay business rates online
How to set up online payment for your rate bill through Billpay.
How Land & Property Services uses your information
How LPS uses customer data and how they protect this data under the legislation.
Business rates: occupying and leaving a property
How your business rates are affected if you occupy or leave a property and how to inform Land and Property Services of changes.
Business rates: the basics
Explanation of what business rates are, how they are calculated, and who must pay non-domestic rates.
Identify work-life balance problems
Signs that can tell employers that their staff are suffering from a poor work-life balance.
Sports and Recreation Rate Relief
If your club, society, or organisation involves the provision of sports or recreation services you may be able to apply for rates relief.
Charitable Exemption for rates
Exemption from business rates if your business has a charitable purpose or public benefit.
Industrial Derating
Manufacturing businesses occupying qualifying industrial properties can qualify to pay 30% of the normal occupied rates.
Rental properties and business rates
Guidance on who is responsible for paying rates on rental properties and the allowances available.
Do I need to pay business rates for my property?
Types of properties that must pay business rates, including using your home as a workplace and exemptions to business rates.
Property changes and business rates
How making alterations to your property or the type of business you use them for can affect your business rates.
Am I legally classed as self-employed?
Determine if you are legally defined as self-employed and how this affects your business.
Workers and employees: the differences
Understand the terms 'employee' and 'worker' and what they mean for your business.
Employment status of company directors
The legal status of company directors, their responsibilities, and tax requirements.
Recruiting new staff and the alternatives
Consider if you need more staff and what alternatives there are.
IR35 and other special rules
Understand the employment status of your contractors and the off-payroll working through an intermediary (IR35) rules.
Recruiting staff
Consider why you need more staff and how you can recruit the ones that best meet your needs.
Recruiting full-time or part-time employees
Your responsibilities for full-time and part-time employees.
Recruiting staff on fixed-term contracts
Advantages and disadvantages of using fixed-term contracts to employ staff.
Recruiting staff: your options
Consider your options for recruiting staff for your business.