If you own or rent a commercial premises or part of a commercial premises and use it for commercial purposes in England, Wales , Scotland or Northern Ireland then business rates will be due.

Every commercial premises, or section of a premises if it is split into units is known as a hereditament and each hereditament can be found in the rating list for each country. You can find your premises using your postcode on each list below :

England & Wales 

Scotland 

Northern Ireland 

There are some commercial premises that are exempt from paying business rates and you can find out more about these reliefs here.