It's incredibly sad to see now the almost hourly closures on my social feeds. I reckon I've seen 18 restaurants shutter in the last 24 hours. I hope the Hospitality industry finally uniting around VAT is not to late! The Wonky Table has been campaigning for this for years and

Great to see at Robert Richardson FIH MI & Institute of Hospitality fighting the good fight with an enormous email going out to his 20k members this week with the petition and a new piece coming in The Staff Canteen soon :) THANKS 🙏 WHOS NEXT? #hospitality #cutvat

I reckon I've seen 100 restaurants, bars or clubs shutter this Jan now (we are one week in). It's a bloodbath. That's on top of the 4500 that shut last year, the 1400 that shut in 2022. The vast majority of them independant. When will the government wake up to the fact that the

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My parents skinted themselves to send me to a private school for the last 4/5 yrs of my education. I was living above a pub on a Council estate, we were NOT rich. Some of my close junior school mates ended up in prison & drug addicts. This labour VAT policy just widens the

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For every £1 you spend in hospitality, 55p goes straight to VAT, NI and Labour costs (Minimum!) That’s before food, business rates, energy, rent, insurance, maintenance and more. Margins are tight. Pressure is real. Policies are wrong. You can’t tax yourself into growth and

In the last 12 months, Hospitality has seen more job losses than any other sector. The UKs fifth biggest industry is crumbling away…and yet, we are still being ignored.

Was able to highlight that hospitality is most highly taxed segment of economy - paying 75% of profit back to govt - and our consumers are the most highly taxed in Europe with almost half the price they pay being tax - without a lower VAT rate. We’re in danger of being #TaxedOut

And happens in every other EU country as well as for Tourist Accommodation - it’s one of the benefits of Brexit that we can do very different rates

The country needs jobs. We create them but just as importantly we develop people, we creete places, we build communities - but we are being #TaxedOut Support our Budget campaign - get involved and make your voice heard 👇🏻