Business rates – or non-domestic rates as they are also known – are a tax levied on shops, bars, restaurants, offices and other commercial properties to pay towards Local Council services such as education, social care and waste management, to name a few. Liability for such ‘rates’ initially rests with the property owner, however it is usually passed on to the tenant under a commercial lease.
By not serving notice, the landlord and the tenant are presumed to have agreed that the Lease should continue on the original terms except for:
An Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) is used to measure the efficiency of a building. Energy Assessors are responsible for producing the certificates, which remain valid for a period of 10 years. EPCs must be produced when a property is intended to be sold or rented out, there are some exceptions to this which are set out in Regulation 4 of the Energy Performance of Building (Scotland) Regulations 2008. The exceptions are:
