How can I pay my Business Rates?
There are a number of ways you can pay your business rates to us.
Direct Debit This is the most cost effective and easiest way to pay your rates. Let your bank or building society do the work and avoid queues and annoying reminders. You keep control over your bank or building society account because of the Direct Debit guarantee.
Simply fill in one of our
Direct Debit forms, send it to us and we'll do the rest. If you don't want to download the form, you can contact our Customer First Centre who will send a form to you. Make sure you quote your business rate account number which starts with a '2'. If you would like more information about direct debit payments, please
use this link to our information leaflet.
Debit / Credit Card
You can pay in person or on the telephone. Contact the Customer First Centre or a member of our Income Team who will ask for your business rate account number and your card details. A secure system is used to process your payment and you will get authorisation straightaway that your payment has been accepted, or you can ring the Business Rates Team on 01253 478857
Internet Payments You can make a payment by clicking on "Make a payment" on the home page of our website. This is a secure means of paying and it is available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
24-hour telephone payments Payment is made on the telephone using our secure 24-hour service. Please ring 01253 478951 to use this service, making sure that you have your account number available.
Standing Order You can set up your own standing order arrangement with your bank or building society but you need to make sure you allow enough time for your payment to reach us. This can take an average of 10 days. If you use this method of payment, please remember that you will need to renew it each year when you get your business rates bill.
Cash / Cheque Payments can be made in person at our Customer First Centre or through the post. All cheques should be crossed and made payable to "Blackpool Council". Post-dated cheques are not usually accepted. For security reasons, it is not advisable to send cash through the post.
All payments made in the Customer First Centre will be receipted but we do not issue receipts for postal payments unless you ask for one so that we can reduce postage costs.
If you send cheques or postal orders to us through the post, please make sure that your name, address and business rate account number are written on the back so that we can credit your payment to the right account.
BACS If you want to pay by BACS, you will need to quote the following information:
Our Sort code - 08 90 00
Our Account number - 61654806
Your business rate account number (this starts with a '2')
Our bank - Cooperative Bank, PO Box 101, 1 Balloon Street, Manchester, M60 4EP
If you think your bill may be wrong or you are having difficulty with payments, please get in touch with us straightaway. We may be able to help you by changing payment dates or reviewing the monthly amounts you have to pay. Please do not ignore your bill as this may result in us taking action against you for not paying. This will mean further charges being added to your bill.