All Tax articles – Page 5
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InterviewsDoner Shack: ‘The US is our most important territory for expansion’
Co-founder Sanj Sanghera says the Berlin-inspired QSR brand has signed dozens of franchise agreements for the US and is also exploring options for company-owned sites across the pond
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NewsLabour under pressure to review ‘flawed’ business rates system
Treasury minister Dan Tomlinson has ‘acknowledged concerns’ about the valuation process and promised a ‘review of the methodology’ - but the government will not change it until the next three-yearly revaluation in 2029
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NewsAngela Rayner: Government must engage and listen to the sector
Labour leadership potential challengers Angela Rayner and Andy Burnham have criticised the government’s tax policies for putting hospitality businesses under pressure
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NewsTreasury: Pub sector underestimated end of Covid rates relief
The Treasury minister behind the controversial business rates overhaul has suggested pub operators and industry bodies did not fully appreciate that pandemic-era subsidies were coming to an end
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NewsWetherspoon urges sector to back Reform tax plans
Chairman Tim Martin criticised the ’underwhelming’ reception from pub sector leaders to Nigel Farage’s pub proposals, which includes cuts to VAT, business rates, beer duty, National Insurance, as well as reform of the tied system
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Weekend PressKate Nicholls: 'The help for pubs is a good start, but there’s so much more to be done'
Businesses in hospitality all benefit from one another — it is a virtuous circle. The Government must do more, writes the UKHospitality chair in The Standard
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Weekend PressSacha Lord: 'What Rachel Reeves must do now is offer hospitality a sector-specific VAT reduction'
VAT for restaurants and bars in Europe is around nine per cent. Why is it so much more here, asks Sacha Lord in The Standard
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OpinionA pound off a pint is fantasy economics
Nigel Farage reckons Reform UK’s tax cutting pubs plan will see the cost of a pint fall by a whole pound, but it doesn’t take much scrutiny for these claims to look as wobbly as an old barstool
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OpinionJamie Oliver: ‘We are in the throes of a culinary brain drain’
The celebrity chef and restaurateur has warned the hospitality sector is being crushed by a combination of astronomical business rates, a rigid VAT system and a mountain of bureaucracy
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NewsStar Pubs sees L&T applicants rise 10% in January
The uplift comes against a backdrop of continued cost inflation and ongoing pub closures in parts of the L&T market
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Analysis & InsightHospitality liquidations remain higher than pre-Covid levels
Research from Begbies Traynor shows the hospitality industry reported some of the highest levels of serious financial distress in Q4 2025 with hotels, bars and restaurants facing the most risk
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NewsFarage sets out populist pubs plan
Reform UK has said it will scrap business rates for pubs as well as National Insurance increases for hospitality businesses and reduce VAT to 10%, funded by reinstating the two-child benefit cap
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Analysis & InsightBusiness rates support: ‘This doesn’t touch the sides’
While there was a general welcome to the support package on rates, as well as calls for a wider overhaul of the system, business leaders called for a solution that “unites the sector, not divides it”
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NewsPubs to see £12,500 cut to rates
Analysis by tax firm Ryan shows that on top of the lower multipliers and transitional relief already in place, the new 15% pubs discount in 2026/27, and a real-terms freeze on core business rates bills in 2027/28 and 2028/29, significantly reduces the impact of revaluation-driven increases
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NewsGovernment sets out business rates package for pubs
Pubs in England will get a 15% cut to their business rates bills from April followed by a two-year real-terms freeze under support measures announced by the Chancellor
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NewsThe Revel Collective split and sold in pre-pack administration
The Revolution and Revolución de Cuba brands have been acquired by Neos Hospitality while Peach Pubs has been bought by Coral Pub Company, operated by pub veteran Ted Kennedy
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OpinionFarewell to the would-be action man of Big Beer
Dominic Walsh looks at the departure of Heineken boss Dolf van den Brink; the bonhomie and pantomine of pub AGMs; and what’s next on the menu for David Page at Bow Street Group
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NewsAlmost 9,000 hospitality jobs lost since November budget
Labour market data shows the sector employed 8,784 fewer people in December 2025, compared to the month before, despite the festive season traditionally being a time that businesses staff up
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OpinionRichard Bailey: Labour tax policies ‘vandalising communities’
Pubs are ‘under siege’, with government tax increases ‘decimating’ the country’s cultural heritage, according to the Thwaites and Independent Family Brewers of Britain chairman
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NewsJohn Vincent: Weight loss jabs are an opportunity for Leon
The Leon boss also called government tax rises for the sector ’incredibly toxic’, and warned quality would decline as a result