Retail Trade: Business Rates

(asked on 28th August 2026) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of the (a) receipts and (b) total Rateable Value for the new business rates surcharge on hereditaments above £500,000 is levied on (i) large distribution warehouses and (ii) the retail sub-sector.


Answered by
James Murray Portrait
James Murray
Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General
This question was answered on 8th September 2026

The Government has set out the impacts of the high-value multiplier, including on retail, hospitality and leisure hereditaments here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/effects-of-the-business-rates-retail-hospitality-and-leisure-multipliers-and-high-value-multiplier/effects-of-the-business-rates-retail-hospitality-and-leisure-multipliers-and-high-value-multiplier

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