Questionnaire for dissertation research aimed at those who own or rent stables and livery yards.

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Good afternoon,


I am currently in my final year of university and my dissertation is focusing on business rates for stables and livery yards (excluding businesses that are solely riding schools).

I am asking if anyone who owns or rents any stables or livery yards would mind voluntarily completing the below questionnaire. Responses for domestic stables are also greatly appreciated and all responses are anonymous.


It will at most be 8 questions (answer dependent) and most of them are multiple choice.

Please access the questionnaire here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/Resp...AI3mRc3tUNU5OTzFON0xHR1dYT1dQTkdMMFJBOEpJUy4u


Even if you know absolutely nothing about business rates, receive small business rates relief, or the value of your stables are included in your Council Tax band, all responses will support my research.


This study has been approved by the University College of Estate Management. If you should have any questions, please post them on here or email me directly at morgan.brigden11@gmail.com.

I would like to thank the admins who have given me permission to post this survey and everyone who has taken the time to read and consider my request.



For some context, the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) is responsible for valuing all properties in England & Wales for domestic (council tax) and non-domestic (business rates) taxation.

A rateable value is the estimated annual rent a property would be let on the open market for at specified date. The current valuation date is the 1st April 2021. The business rates a property will normally pay is around 50% of this rateable value.


Morgan
 
I will have a go at the survey later 🙂.

You might this thread below from 2017 interesting, and these are two posts of mine on it.

Council have just been round - Stable tax

Just a warning to all you lovely people who have the horses at home. Our local council sent a letter last week saying they had the right to come onto our property and inspect our property. To asses for non domestic rates on our stables. Our stables are 11 metres from our back door, and...
forums.horseandhound.co.uk forums.horseandhound.co.uk

Tiddlypom said:
I'm glad that this thread exists, as I remembered it when it was our turn on Friday for the arrival in the post of a hefty rates bill for our purely private yard, stables, shelters and arena.

Nearly £7k due within 14 days for rates, backdated to 2017 :eek:.

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There was no accompanying advice on how to appeal or discuss the bill, just the demand for nearly £7k. The council helpline had already knocked off for the weekend, so we had to hang on til today to query it.

All sorted, no monies owed. The council is required by government to send out these demands, but the very helpful council bod readily agreed that we have small business exemption. Even though we are not a business, this is a private home. All legit. Council bod agrees that it is a nonsense, but the inflexible wording of the demand is imposed on them by government.

https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-business-rate-relief/small-business-rate-relief

Oh, and btw he also told us how they assess whether the stables are within the curtilage of a property. If any wall or part of the stable structure touches the garden boundary, it is within the curtilage. If the stables are close to the boundary but don't touch it, it isn't.
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Tiddlypom said:
Written confirmation from the council that, instead of the £6939.75 that was being demanded for non domestic rates for the stables less than a month ago, we owe precisely £0.00. As we knew, and they knew, but the government had still had a good go at intimidating us into paying :mad:.

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Tiddlypom said:
I will have a go at the survey later 🙂.

You might this thread below from 2017 interesting, and these are two posts of mine on it.

Council have just been round - Stable tax

Just a warning to all you lovely people who have the horses at home. Our local council sent a letter last week saying they had the right to come onto our property and inspect our property. To asses for non domestic rates on our stables. Our stables are 11 metres from our back door, and...
forums.horseandhound.co.uk forums.horseandhound.co.uk
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Thank you very much for sharing these threads! Would you mind if I used this as anecdotal evidence in my research? It would still be anonymous!
 
morganbrigden said:
Thank you very much for sharing these threads! Would you mind if I used this as anecdotal evidence in my research? It would still be anonymous!
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You’re welcome to share my posts on it 🙂. Tack Room is a public part of the forum, so anyone posting will be aware that anything that they have posted on that thread is available to find on a Google search.

Almost everyone on here posts anonymously with a username anyway.
 
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