14/06/2026
Please back your favourite local venues, help your high street and support local jobs!
Our pubs, restaurants, cafes, hotels, nightclubs and many more, are at the heart of our communities. They bring people together and bring life to our cities, towns and villages, but they're under huge pressure from rising costs.
With business rates increases, NI contribution increases, food inflation, NWM increases all coming in over the last year over 3 hospitality business are closing a day.
We believe reducing the existing VAT rate would help businesses survive in these difficult times.
In the UK, you pay one of the highest VAT rates in Europe at 20% but in France, Spain and Italy, it's 10%. In Germany? 7%.
Our message to Government is simple. Let's stand together to say VAT at 10% is fair for hospitality.
Please sign the petition here and let’s keep our high streets and neighbourhoods alive and thriving!
https://www.change.org/p/reduce-vat-and-support-the-hospitality-industry
