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Back in April 2017 the UK Government allowed broadband networks in England and Wales to claim 100% business rates relief on new fibre infrastructure for a period of 5-years, which is a change that Openreach<\/a> and other FTTP<\/a> builders had long sought. So it may come as a surprise to learn that BT<\/a> has never claimed this benefit.<\/p>\n

The 5-year holiday<\/a> on business rates for new fibre optic (FTTP<\/a>) broadband ISP infrastructure, which was adopted in both England<\/strong> and Wales<\/strong> to help tackle the so-called “Fibre Tax<\/em>“, officially expired at the end of March 2022 and has sadly not been extended. By comparison, the Scottish Government<\/a> ensured operators building “new fibre<\/em>” in Scotland can continue to claim 100% relief until 31st March 2034 (this began in April 2019)!<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> The relief in England and Wales was applicable to new fibre that had been “laid, flown, blown, affixed or attached<\/em>“, including any plant and machinery intended to be used in connection with that fibre.<\/div>\n

The rates relief was originally introduced around the same time as various other schemes (e.g. broadband vouchers), regulatory changes from Ofcom<\/a> and investment schemes, which together formed a key part of what has since helped to drive more competition into the UK fibre market. As a result, a mass of alternative networks are now investing to help deploy gigabit-capable broadband (Summary of UK Full Fibre Progress<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n

However, the relief arguably had less of an impact on existing operators, such as Openreach<\/a> (BT<\/a>) and Virgin Media<\/a>, because it was introduced alongside a \u201crevaluation<\/em>\u201d of business rates for existing infrastructure, which at the same time hit them with a huge tax hike (here<\/a>). Nevertheless, in 2017 the UK Government estimated that their tax holiday could save operators \u00a360m (here<\/a>), but that didn’t account for all the new AltNets that sprang up.<\/p>\n

Suffice to say, everybody expected that Openreach<\/a> would be one of the biggest beneficiaries of such relief due to the sheer scale of their rollout, which made it all the more of a surprise to learn that the BT<\/a> Group has not claimed any relief under the scheme.<\/p>\n

Just for context, BT has been building FTTP<\/a> at a cost of \u00a3250-\u00a3350 per premises passed, and they built around 7 million premises during the 5-year relief period (estimated total build cost of \u00a31.75bn to \u00a32.45bn). But the relief can be claimed on any new fibre installed, which may also include core links, leased lines (EAD) and so forth. As such, the total cost of all fibre built by Openreach during this period is a little harder to discern.<\/p>\n

What happened?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

According to a new letter issued by the Government’s Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government and Building Safety, Lee Rowley MP<\/strong>: “Officials have confirmed to me that British Telecommunications plc has received no relief under the Regulations from 1st April 2017 up to the date of this letter [16th May 2023]<\/em>.” Credits to Aidan Paul<\/a>, MD of Dolomite Solutions, for spotting this.<\/p>\n

As above, this came as quite a surprise to ISPreview, and so we promptly asked BT for some clarification. A spokesperson for the operator said: “BT Group didn\u2019t apply for or receive the previously available business rates relief for new fibre<\/em>.” But sadly, the operator hasn’t responded to our request for clarification over the reasons why they didn’t claim the relief.<\/p>\n

However, it’s possible the situation may relate to an appeal BT lodged against a business rates relief \u201ccertificate<\/em>\u201d from HMRC\u2019s (UK Government) Valuation Office Agency (VOA) in 2021 (here<\/a>), which allegedly related to how much tax (rates) they pay on their new fibre optic broadband lines. But BT has never commented on that.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, BT were keen to point out that they have taken advantage of the much more recent “Super Deduction<\/em>” by the UK Government (i.e. giving a 25% tax break to businesses that invested in new plant and machinery assets), which they previously said enabled Openreach to raise their FTTP rollout plan from 20m to 25m premises.<\/p>\n

The new introduction of “Full Expensing<\/em>” in the 2023 Spring Budget<\/strong> (here<\/a>), which follows on from the recent end of the Super Deduction, should also allow the operator to deliver increased connections and offset inflation, while continuing to target 25 million FTTP premises for the end of 2026 (although their rate of build did recently slow<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The benefits of the aforementioned changes, at least to the BT Group, seem likely to far outweigh any positive, albeit relatively small, impact from the recent rates’ relief on new fibre, assuming the operator did end up claiming it. In addition, it is known that the system for handling this, which is governed by the VOA, remains very complex (example<\/a>). But the question remains, why has BT not claimed millions of pounds in relief on new fibre? Like so many things to do with the VOA, we do not have a clear answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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