Business rates information

Information about business rates 2025/26

This contains information about:

what business rates are
rateable values
the rating multiplier
charges on unoccupied properties
reliefs and discounts
advice about rating advisors

Business Bolton

Business Bolton is Bolton Council's one stop shop for supporting individuals and businesses to achieve economic prosperity in Bolton. The Business Bolton team are on hand to provide you up to date business opportunities and connect you up with our partners that help business start-ups and growth opportunities for businesses.

Email us at businessbolton@bolton.gov.uk to get in touch with the team. Visit www.businessbolton.org or follow up on social media @businessbolton to find out more.

Alternatively, sign-up for regular updates by email at www.businessbolton.org/newsletter.

Sign up for Visit Bolton

Visit Bolton is relaunching with a brand-new website with the aim to revolutionise the visitor economy in Bolton.

However, they need your support to drive our town forward as the visitor destination of choice. The site gets over 150,000 web visitors looking to see:

what’s on
things to do
where to eat and drink
places to shop
where to stay in Bolton

If your organisation fits one of these categories, they need you to join the Visit Bolton community. If you register, you can:

get free advertising for your organisation or event
create a brand page with the freedom to update as often as you like
build connections with local residents and visitors
improve traffic to your website
boost social engagement
grow your audience

All they need you to do is join the Visit Bolton community, create your account and submit your listings and events.

It’s all completely free and it only takes a few minutes to sign up.

Business growth hub

Business Growth Hub provide a wide range of services to help start-up businesses across Greater Manchester. The team support businesses at all stages of their growth journey with a broad range of services. Offering expert one-to-one and peer-to-peer business support, events, specialist programmes, funding and much more.

Apprenticeships

Employing an apprentice can be a great addition to your business. It gives you the opportunity to benefit from a supported programme that invests in training employees with the skills set and workplace behaviour right for you. There are a wide range of local training providers offering fantastic training courses which have been advised by employers.

Business Bolton can help you to find the right person and training provider through our recruitment support with links to local skills advice or the Team Bolton Partnership.

Greater Manchester precepts and levies

These form part of the Council Tax bill and go towards the police, fire and rescue, waste disposal and transport services for Greater Manchester. To find out more see the Greater Manchester Combined Authority website.