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Amazing summit with some really great conversations in the room on how to push forward.
We hope the next couple of months will bring real change.
We shall see @HospoVoices
#Hospitality #VatCut
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Polly Tearooms in Marlborough closes after 114 years. For the same reasons that all businesses are struggling: NI rise, minimum wage, taxes, regulations.
Our rulers can’t begin to imagine what it’s like to run a small enterprise within tight profit margins.
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The UK had 104,000 fewer businesses at the start of 2026 than a year earlier.
SMEs account for 99.9% of British businesses.
Our SME report sets out reforms to business rates, access to finance, late payments and energy costs to help British businesses grow.
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We need a hospitality VAT rate across all sit in venues. For the whole of the UK.
VAT pilot “a no-brainer” - but reform of business rates must also be part of the conversation for non food pubs
Speaking at Hospitality Ulster’s event this week Sacha Lord, Night Time Economy Advisor to Andy Burnham, when Manchester Mayor said “A VAT pilot in Northern Ireland is a no-brainer. It is the perfect place to test what a more competitive rate can do for hospitality, and the best route forward for the UK industry as a whole.”
“Any reform of hospitality taxation also needs to recognise the different business models within our sector. Traditional pubs, which do not serve food, would not directly benefit from a reduction in food VAT, yet they face many of the same pressures as other hospitality businesses. For these venues, reform of business rates must also be part of the conversation if we are serious about the whole sector.”
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#HospitalityNI
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Labour's plan to crush small independent businesses out of existence at the behest of their corporate overlords going nicely to plan.
UK loses another 104,000 businesses as SMEs lead decline thetimes.com/business/entrep…
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Cost of employing young people up by three times the rate of inflation under Labour - causing jobs slump trib.al/rY5kMiq
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We set up @HospoVoices to bring together the people who run pubs, restaurants, cafés and hotels across the UK and make sure Westminster hears directly from us.
We’ve now identified at @wonky_table 300 MPs across party lines who have backed a cut in hospitality VAT. That’s 46% of the House of Commons.
We’re asking the Chancellor to cut VAT immediately on food and drink served in hospitality venues to 13% for six months, as an emergency cut - then review the impact on jobs and businesses and make the cut permanent.
Hospitality Voices estimates the net cost to the Treasury at £1.32 billion over six months. Its model assumes large operators account for half of the relevant sales and that the Treasury recovers some of the cost through VAT on extra sales, corporation tax, PAYE and National Insurance.
This is against the near £1bn estimated that the treasury lost in closures this this over the last 12 months.
Yet no one is listening.
#hospitality
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Who the hell is kidding who ?@andyburnham you and @JohnHealey_MP are continuing the destruction of our Hospitality and High Street businesses - our SME’s that you indicated cless as rly your support for have been totally let down and so have all the young people for whom we could have started to generate jobs for if you had lived u to your words & delivered positive actions ? Same old , same old Lies , Lies & more Lies ! @UKHospKate @allen_m_simpson @Sacha_Lord @andyjlennox @benleo @bhatti_saqib @HouseofCommons @iromg
“Slash VAT & Business Rates.”
That’s the message from Andy Burnham at #NTES26
2 million UK jobs depend on hospitality - yet venues are still closing.
Europe backs its sector. The UK must too.
Support a VAT cut in line with Europe.
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Shame on @UKLabour.
The Alma Tavern in Worcester has shut. 14-15 staff let go. Landlord Jon Dean says employer's NICs, minimum wage, VAT and business rates 'crippled us'. @tomcollinsworcs, this is your city. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6p3…
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@JohnHealey_MP The plot thickens. This is in fact a lie. Rates have been cut, but not as much as they were put up by @UKLabour already. #Hospitality
@greeneking you should be ashamed of yourselves and I will never drink a pint in your venues whilst you contoune to support this shambolic government.
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This venue in Makerfield, even after the “support” now pays £60k more a year thanks to @UKLabour. Unsustainable. You promised the calvary was coming @andyburnham, where is it ?
Someone has just checked Holt Arms, Makerfield: @UKLabour's Budgets have cost it an estimated £59,058 a year. Find out how much Labour has cost your local: hospitalityban.co.uk @andyburnham
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He just taken the the piss out the pubs and hospitality today in the budget. And he does something like this. An absolute 🔔 🔚. – at Witham, East
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If this is real the Chancellor @JohnHealey_MP and @dantomlinsonmp should resign for conduct unbecoming of a Member of Parliament. Disgusting when hundreds of thousands of #Hospitality businesses are trying to figure out how to save their businesses after another awful budget. @greeneking and the @twochairmen should be ashamed of themselves for letter them in
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Hospitality Ulster has welcomed a recommendation from the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee for a four-year pilot reducing VAT on food and accommodation in Northern Ireland to 10%, following sustained lobbying by the hospitality sector over the tax burden facing local businesses. The Committee’s recommendation follows extensive engagement by HU and visits to hospitality businesses in Northern Ireland.
However, we must also recognise that a reduction in VAT on food and accommodation will not benefit every part of our sector. Pubs that do not serve food will see no direct benefit from this proposal and we will continue to lobby for their inclusion.
HU- One Industry- One Voice
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