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Rating Matters: Budget Briefing - NDR Beyond the Headlines

Rating Matters will cover topics in more detail, incorporating a Rating Talking Heads style, but now provide a means to offer so much more. Presentation slides will be introduced into the new format, along with more time to extensively deal with the complex subjects. This session looks at 'Budget Briefing — NDR Beyond the Headlines'.

Start Date Venue Price  
9 December 2025 Virtual Monthly Discussion £75 BOOK

Note: All prices are to be paid in GBP and are subject to VAT at the prevailing rate

Event duration: Afternoon Virtual Event (1.30 hours CPD).
Registration from: 12.25. Event starts at: 12.30. Event finishes at: 14.00.

Booking Note for RSA Members: Your RSA discount code needs to be added during the booking process.

The Autumn Budget is the moment when ratepayers might finally gain clarity on policy, reform, and the all-important 2026 revaluation. As ever, rating advisers are expected to decode the detail before the ink is dry.

After months of uncertainty on more general aspects of tax measures - the leaks, trial balloons and “testing the water” briefings, all is set to be revealed. For rating, we are on the cusp of discovering what the new NDR landscape will actually look like. Retail and leisure appear exposed; offices and industrial are far from immune and there are already scare stories of significant shifts in RV.

Our expert panellists will help practitioners cut through the noise and assess the facts.

This event will have to navigate the uncertainty of when all the facts are out, having time to see beyond the presentation in Parliament, read the Red Book that contains the hard facts and then consider what to say.  

Part 1 - The Budget: What Really Matters for the key Property Classes

We unpack the Chancellor’s announcements as they relate to:

  • Retail and leisure (likely to face the heaviest weather)
  • Offices
  • Industrial
  • Any sector-specific interventions, reliefs or withdrawals
  • The wider fiscal direction and what it signals for business rates policy

Part 2 - The Draft List: Early Tone, Early Impact Assessment

With the draft list, multipliers and transitional arrangements expected imminently, we explore:

  • The emerging tone of the 2026 List
  • Likely winners and losers
  • Early liability modelling and risk areas
  • What advisers should prepare for now - even without the full dataset

Why Attend?

  1. Rating professionals need clarity, not speculation
  2. Your clients will expect answers 
  3. Government are keen to “manage the message” means the message may not be found between the lines

Join us for an informed, unvarnished briefing that goes beyond the headlines and focuses on what actually matters for ratepayers

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