Business Rates will not be taken on April 1st to help support businesses affected by Coronavirus (Covid-19).
Cllr Carl Ollerhead, Manchester City Council’s executive member for finance and human resources, said: “Business Rate payments will be delayed for Manchester businesses in April and direct debits will not be taken. It’s important that we can support businesses and minimise their expenditure while relief and support from central Government is put into action.
“We understand this will be a worrying time for business owners of all sizes and we will do what we can to help as the situation evolves.
“Information is available on the Council website for business owners, including business rates, sick pay for employees, and links through to the Government loan scheme.”
The council have also said that they will suspended all bailiff action to recover business rates that are overdue until the end of June
For businesses that contact them, they will agree special payment plans so that the business rates due for 2020/21 are split over 9 months from July 2020 to March 2021, meaning that businesses will not have to pay anything until July;
The Council added:
“For businesses that are in the retail, hospitality or leisure industry we have suspended all recovery action for an initial three month period. We will consider requests from other businesses and organisations based on their circumstances.”
