Check your 2026 business rates evidence before you challenge.
A useful business rates checker should do more than multiply your rateable value by a number. It should help you separate the bill, the valuation and the evidence.
What the free X-Ray checks
- The percentage change from your 2023 rateable value to 2026.
- Your 2026 rateable value per square metre for supported property types.
- Whether the main property facts appear correct, wrong or still unverified.
- How your change sits against the official broad 2026 sector movement.
- Any comparator £/m² figures you choose to enter.
- Whether relief thresholds may deserve a separate bill check.
Why not just use GOV.UK?
You should use GOV.UK for the official property record and the official process. Rates X-Ray sits after the lookup and before the decision. Its job is to help answer: “I have the numbers, but is there enough here to justify deeper investigation?”
Why no postcode-only magic answer?
Property valuation is not safely reduced to “nearby = comparable”. The checker starts with the official figures and then asks only for information that changes the diagnosis. Where automated data is not verified, the site says so rather than inventing precision.
Private by default
The free X-Ray calculation runs locally in your browser. You do not need to create an account, enter a phone number or request a callback to see the result.