This application enables users to view and search a Rating List. Users can retrieve any entry that is currently in force, as well as the entry that represents the deletion of any assessment that has appeared in the past. The history of all such entries can be viewed and the user can, where required, submit an appeal against one of the entries displayed.

Valuation Officers are required by statute to produce and maintain rating lists and this responsibility is discharged by supplying the Compiled Rating List to the Billing Authority (local authority) and notifying them of any subsequent changes. Each Billing Authority holds a printed version of their list which can be viewed by the public. The primary aim of this Internet application is to make the rating list information more widely available, especially to individual ratepayers. There are 760 separate Rating Lists held within the application (380 x 1995 and 380 x 2000) and you can only look at one list at a time. We do not intend to provide interaction between the lists, either for individual properties or by property type. This type of functionality is provided by companies like EGi, Property Intelligence Limited and The Rating Software Company , whose products are designed particularly for firms of surveyors and the commercial property market.

The 1990 Rating List is not included in this application because it is no longer maintained by computer, as the software was not compliant for the year 2000. The small amount of work generated by the 1990 List mean't that upgrading the software could not be cost justified. From January 1st 2000 all 1990 work has been dealt with manually.

For more detailed explanation of how this application works and a description of the information displayed, please view the Help Text on each page

Programming of Non Domestic Rating Appeals

This application enables users to view and search the programmes which provide a timetable for clearance of Rating Appeals against 2000 Rating Lists and 1995 Rating List appeals received since 1 April 2000.

Programming is an initiative designed to inform ratepayers when their appeals will be dealt with by the valuation officer and in the event that a settlement cannot be reached the knowledge that a hearing before the valuation tribunal will take place shortly thereafter.

Users should be able to identify the likely period when their appeal will be dealt with by the valuation Office.

The programming initiative is backed by a guidance note. The guidance note has been prepared by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) following discussions with the Valuation Tribunal Service in England and Wales, DTLR and the National Assembly for Wales. It contains advice on the principles and procedures to be followed in establishing programmes for dealing with appeals against all non domestic rating assessments made after 1 April 2000 in England and Wales.

Programmes have been prepared for every billing authority in England and Wales. The primary aim of this Internet application is to publish and update, on a regular basis, details of all the programmes for dealing with appeals throughout England and Wales and to make this information widely available, particularly to individual ratepayers.

There are many hundreds of sub programmes to cope with the number and variety of appeals which will be received by valuation officers and you can only look at programmes relating to one rating list at a time and in relation to a specific billing authority.

For a more detailed explanation of how this application works and a description of the information displayed please view the Help Text on each page.

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For enquiries regarding

• Rating List Entries and the Revaluation
• Information regarding the Revaluation 2000.
• Rate Bills
• Access and performance problems, encountered whilst using this application

  See below.

• Rating List Entries

  Where you are having trouble identifying an address in the rating list or wish to query a particular entry, please contact the Group Valuation Office responsible for the Billing Authority in which the property resides. A full list of the Group Valuation Officers and their Billing Authorities exists on the VOA Website under 'Where to find us'.

  On occasions a Valuation Office may have to direct you to it's IT Help Desk when your problem is found to be complex or of a technical nature (see below).

• Information regarding the Revaluation 2000

  A guide to the Revaluation 2000 has been published by the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR). This can be viewed on their website www.dtlr.gov.uk

  Under	Local Government
  	Business Rates
  	Revaluation 2000: A Guide to the Revaluation of Business Rates

  This explains what the Revaluation means for your business and contains detailed information on Transitional Relief.

  Alternatively you may obtain a copy of the guide by

  Writing to	DTLR Free Literature, PO Box No. 236, Wetherby, LS23 7NB.
  E-mailing	DTLR@twoten.press.net
  Telephoning	0 8 7 0  1 2 2 6 2 3 6
  Faxing	0 8 7 0  1 2 2 6 2 3 7
  Textphone	0 8 7 0  1 2 0 7 4 0 5

• Rate Bills

  Please contact the business rates department at your local authority. If you are unsure of the name of your local authority, you will find it on your last rates bill. In rating legislation the local authority is referred to as the billing authority.

• Access and performance problems, encountered whilst using this application.

  Please contact the Computerisation of the Valuation Office (COVO) Help Desk

  by email on	it_support.vo@voa.gsi.gov.uk
  or by telephone on	0 1 9 0 3   7 0 7 8 5 0

  The Help Desk is available 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday to Friday.

• Software

  This application is designed to run on any HTML 3.2 compliant browser. It does not contain any Java applets, DHTML or XML. The intention is to provide access to the widest possible audience.

  The application has been tested against the following browsers :-

  • Netscape Navigator 3.0
  • Netscape Navigator 4.6
  • MS Internet Explorer 3.0
  • MS Internet Explorer 4.0
  • MS Internet Explorer 5.0