The Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention and Levy and Safety Net) (Amendment) Regulations 2018
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 2018, further pilot areas in Berkshire, Derbyshire, Devon, Gloucestershire, Kent, Leeds, Lincolnshire, London, Solent, Suffolk and Surrey (“100% pilot areas”) in which authorities will retain 100% of locally raised rates;changes to the conditions for case A and case B hereditaments in respect of qualifying relief for deductions from central share payments; andrevised figures to be used in the calculation of levy and safety net payments for the years beginning on 1st April 2017 and 1st April 2018.