Bill, a regular since the 1980’s. He comes in at least 3 times a week for company and conversation. He attributes it to keeping him young at heart even though he’s 84 x
Cutting the cost of living starts with cutting the cost of doing business and scrapping packaging taxes is a positive first step
Hospitality bears a disproportionate tax burden - 83% of pre tax profits. Higher taxes on employment, property, energy and environmental levies leave businesses with less money to invest in jobs and local communities and put further upward pressure on prices
Nigel Lawson cut income tax to two simple bands in 1988 - 25% and 40%. It was clean, simple and well understood. How did we go from that to this? @hmtreasury
'Gingerbread men with chocolate trousers incur value-added tax (VAT) worth 20%, but no tax is charged on those with chocolate only for their eyes.'
Britain's taxes aren't unusually high - but they are freakishly complex, @TheEconomist says: economist.com/britain/2026/1…
82p of every £1 hospitality makes goes in business taxes, new analysis reveals. It’s the highest tax rate of any UK sector.
Ahead of the Budget, together with @the_brc, we’re calling on the Chancellor to cut the high street’s cost burden.
Read more 👉 ukhospitality.org.uk/hospita…
When you get sent the message from the boys;
"Pint?"
Who cares if you're a little off the pace, a two pint deficit is quickly caught up.
Weekend plans, or lack of, here at your friendly neighbourhood local
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An abysmal episode. What an opportunity to put the Energy Secretary on the spot over our crazy energy policy. One energy question right at the end, where she responded with a word salad speech. Hopeless.
The Government can’t have its cake and eat it.
You cannot point to Europe to justify a new tourism tax while conveniently ignoring how Europe taxes hospitality.
A tourism tax of up to 5% on top of 20% VAT means the headline tax burden could effectively reach 25%.
Yes Europe has tourism taxes, but Europe also recognises the economic value of hospitality and tourism with substantially lower VAT rates.
If we want European-style tourism taxes then give us European-style VAT.
Stop picking the bits of Europe that raise taxes while ignoring the bits that help hospitality grow.
#VATinlinewithEurope#VATsTheProblem#Hospitality#Tourism#cutvat
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On the face of it, this looks like good news. And to a degree, it is.
But it doesn't address the real problem: huge disparities in rateable values between similar pubs. If I'm paying £50k a yr and an identical pub across the road is paying £10k, a 20% discount for both...1/2