Disproportionate burden assessment for the Discretionary Rate Relief Policy

Scope

The Discretionary Rate Relief Policy is public information regarding discretionary reliefs available to the customer.

Benefits of creating an accessible version

The benefits of creating a HTML version of this PDF would be:

• It would save customers contacting the council directly, and the content can be read and understood by a wide audience.

Burden placed on the organisation

The document is council policy and must be uploaded to the website now. 

Contributing factors

• We can supply an accessible version on request.

Assessment

The document needs to be on the website now so we can upload a pdf as a short-term measure whilst supplying fully accessible versions on request. 

View the Business Rates Relief Policy 2024 – changes to relief for 2024

If you need any of the information from the PDF provided in another format, contact business.rates@colchester.gov.uk.