Fresh Start Relief
Under Fresh Start Relief, businesses occupying certain long-term empty properties may be entitled to a 100% business rates discount for their first year in those premises.
You may be eligible if:
- you started occupying the property on or after 1 April 2018 and the property had previously been empty for at least 6 months
- the property has a rateable value up to £100,000
- the property is actively occupied
Contact your local council to see if you're eligible or to apply.
Find out more about Fresh Start Relief in your area:
- Aberdeen City Council
- Aberdeenshire Council
- Angus Council
- Argyll and Bute Council
- Clackmannanshire Council
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
- Dumfries and Galloway Council
- Dundee City Council
- East Ayrshire Council
- East Dunbartonshire Council
- East Lothian Council
- East Renfrewshire Council
- Edinburgh Council
- Falkirk Council
- Fife Council
- Glasgow City Council
- Highland Council
- Inverclyde Council
- Midlothian Council
- Moray Council
- North Ayrshire Council
- North Lanarkshire Council
- Orkney Islands Council
- Perth and Kinross Council
- Renfrewshire Council
- Scottish Borders Council
- Shetland Islands Council
- South Ayrshire Council
- South Lanarkshire Council
- Stirling Council
- West Dunbartonshire Council
- West Lothian Council