Press Releases

Budget 2021: Business rates holiday extended to end of June

The business rates holiday for retail and hospitality firms will continue until the end of June, the chancellor announced today. Rishi Sunak told the House of Commons that the 100 per cent business rates holiday will be extended for three months. For the remaining nine months of the financial ...

The Spending Review documents state that the freeze will ‘save businesses in England £575m over the next five years’ and that ‘the government is also considering options for further Covid-19 related support through business rates reliefs. In order to ensure that any decisions...

Audit Success

Exacta are in the process of auditing the portfolio of one of the leading telecommunication suppliers in the United Kingdom. At a recent review meeting we were delighted to report savings from historical auditing work to date of £2,727,827 ...

Local authorities have begun to turn up the heat on businesses that have been unable to pay rates bills during the pandemic, with some pursuing claims through the courts. According to a leading property consultancy, an increasing number of clients are receiving letters demanding payment or court sum...

Charitable rates relief

The Court of Session has overturned the decision by Aberdeen City Council (“ACC”) to refuse charitable business rates relief and reaffirmed that, for the purpose of determining whether property is ‘wholly or mainly’ used for charitable purposes, “the mere fact that a pr...

Reverse vending machines

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced that retailers which install a reverse vending machine (RVM) will benefit from rates relief. Speaking at the Scottish Grocers’ Federation (SGF) annual conference in Glasgow, the First Minister said: “We recognise the global climate emergenc...