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In Wales, small business rates relief was not introduced until 2007. [41] It replaced rural property relief, [46] but included similar provisions, with 50% relief for most properties with a rateable value below £2,000, and 25% relief for rateable values between £2,000 and £5,000.
Business rates are collected throughout the United Kingdom. Domestic rates are collected in Northern Ireland and were collected in England and Wales before 1990 and in Scotland before 1989. Rates are usually paid by the occupier of a property, and only in the case of unoccupied property does the owner become liable to pay them.
The system was further reformed by the Poor Relief Act 1601. The 1601 act was repealed in 1967, and replaced by the predecessor to business rates, the General Rate Act 1967. This was subsequently reformed in the Local Government Finance Act 1988. That act established business rates in England and Wales from 1990.
In 2005–06, £19.9 billion was collected in business rates, representing 4.35 per cent of the total United Kingdom tax income. [66] Business rates are a property tax, where each non-domestic property is assessed with a rateable value, expressed in pounds. The rateable value broadly represents the annual rent the property could have been let ...
Land Transaction Tax (LTT) (Welsh: Treth Trafodiadau Tir (TTT)) is a property tax in Wales. It replaced the Stamp Duty Land Tax from 1 April 2018. [1] It became the first Welsh tax in almost 800 years. [2] An explanation of the tax system in Wales, including the Land Transaction Tax.
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Business rates were introduced in England and Wales in 1990, and are a modernised version of a system of rating that dates back to the Poor Relief Act 1601. As such, business rates retain many previous features from, and follow some case law of, older forms of rating.
In England and Wales the poor rate was a tax on property levied in each parish, which was used to provide poor relief. It was collected under both the Old Poor Law and the New Poor Law . It was absorbed into 'general rate' local taxation in the 1920s, and has continuity with the currently existing Council Tax .