The Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention and Levy and Safety Net) (Amendment) and (Levy Account: Basis of Distribution) Regulations 2019
These Regulations amend the Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/452) (“the Rates Retention Regulations”) and the Non-Domestic Rating (Levy and Safety Net) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/737) (“the Levy and Safety Net Regulations”) to provide for:changes to the administration of the rates retention scheme to give effect to the Government's decision to create, from 1st April 2019, further business rates retention pilots in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Greater London, Hertfordshire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, North and West Yorkshire, North of Tyne, Solent, Somerset, Staffordshire and Stoke, West Sussex and Worcestershire (“75% pilot areas”), in which authorities will retain 75% of locally raised rates;changes reflecting local government reorganisations taking effect on 1st April 2019;changes to the baseline funding level of the Council of the Isles of Scilly.