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[UKHospitality @UKHofficial]

The #VATsTheProblem petition has now reached 200,000 signatures.

Chef @ChefTomKerridge spoke to Newsnight about the huge cost pressures facing hospitality. A 10% VAT rate for hospitality could help save hospitality businesses in the UK.

We’re making great progress, but we need 1 million signatures to make the case to Government.

Sign the petition today 👇
https://t.co/wtQRPN2te1

[UKHospitality @UKHofficial]

100,000 signatures in under 72 hours supporting 10% VAT on hospitality! Huge thanks to everyone who’s signed and shared so far. This is just the start - we’re aiming for 1 million. Let’s keep pushing. Share and get your teams involved 👉 https://t.co/MEDVqI2nlS

[Kate Nicholls OBE @UKHospKate]

Thank you to @BBCNewsnight for covering the challenges facing the whole of the hospitality sector. Chefs @ottolenghi and @ChefTomKerridge are right that it is the hardest it has ever been not just for pubs and restaurants but also hotels and accommodation providers and it is hurting jobs, investment and growth

[UKHospitality @UKHofficial]

In Parliament @JWhittingdale MP asked why the hospitality sector is being hit with another tax.

“These business are making it clear that if there are any further increases, they will simply not survive.”

This is the wrong policy and at the worst time. Gov’t must scrap the tax.
https://t.co/8PXIfbX8RG

[Leon Samuel Burton 🇺🇦 @leonburton]

You are hospitality killers @AJogee @AllisonCGardner @gareth_snell @david4lcs @Kate_Dearden @Dan4Barnet @jamesmurray_ldn @TorstenBell. Shame on you. You are ignorant, arrogant & killing what’s left of our great industry. Economic suicide.

[UKHospitality @UKHofficial]

"We would be pretty much unique in having both VAT at 20% and a potential 5% holiday tax."

Our high rate of VAT means that visiting the UK is already expensive compared to Europe. A holiday tax makes that worse, Our Chief Executive @allen_m_simpson, tells Times Radio.

[UKHospitality @UKHofficial]

“Six hospitality venues are closing every single day.”

Thank you @JeromeMayhew for raising the scale of business closures in the sector this year.

We need a hospitality-wide solution on business rates to prevent closures escalating further.

[UKHospitality @UKHofficial]

With hospitality costs set to increase once again this week, our latest member survey reveals that one in five venues face closure in the next year.

Read more in the @guardian about the impact cost increases are having on our sector 👇 https://t.co/a4RpfweCBa

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

Every single time Ed Miliband goes on the TV, his ludicrous, entirely dishonest, gaslighting arguments are effortlessly dismantled.

It doesn't matter what the subject is.

Fuel costs
Energy prices
Net Zero

*Nothing* he says is based in reality.
The man is a dangerous liar.

[Square Bistro @squarebistro]

#cutvat @RachelReevesMP @Keir_Starmer

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

I suggest you speak to your team @RachelReevesMP … an emergency cut in VAT is the ONLY lever you have to save thousands of Hospitality businesses folding.
Much of Europe has VAT rates 10-13% to support their Hospitality industry.

A cut in VAT has been used and worked before.

[Andy Lennox @andyjlennox]

To all @UKLabour @RachelReevesMP @Keir_Starmer all affected #Hospitality businesses MUST be included in this U-turn, not just pubs and to clarify, this wouldn’t be deemed as “tax cut or support”, you got your numbers wrong - own it - you tried to put up taxes on a Industry already on it knees.

“Support” is in the form of a #VatCut in line with Europe. There they Value their Hospitality and see it for what it is the engine of the economy #TaxedOut #NoLabourMPs #ItsnotoveruntiltheVatladysigns

IF rate relief is not applied to all affected Hospitality this is only going to get bigger and we will push the little red button on further planned industrial action. #March #Protest #BeerBarrels #IndustrialAction

[UKHospitality @UKHofficial]

"We do need a solution for everybody."

The business rates hikes hitting hospitality affects every part of the sector - pubs, hotels, restaurants, and cafes, to name a few. We need a hospitality-wide solution to this problem.

@allen_m_simpson, our CEO, spoke to @itvnews.

[Michel Roux Jr @michelrouxjr]

@UKHospKate Not just pubs, all small businesses 😡

[Asiad @CosyCornerL]

@leonburton The government simply aren't listening and ignoring the huge amount of closures and job losses. The farmers protests in Central London was clearly affective. Surely the UK hospitality industry need to organise something similar within the next few weeks, no point in a years time.

[Cut My Tax @CutMyTaxUK]

"It's a pub destroyer. Pubs can't survive these kinds of increases. It's not viable. Most pubs are just about scraping by anyway. If you add these massive increases your profit margins are wiped out. We struggle as it is."

"We're sort of in the average area at 157%, but we've got a lot of local pubs that are increasing by 600% & another one by 800%. You can't have that kind of increase & expect businesses to succeed, said Mark Ambrose of the Barking Cat Ale House in Poole.

Neil Duncan-Jordan, Poole's first ever Labour MP, says he is prepared to vote against the tax rise. Could there be a backbench rebellion against pub destroyer Rachel?

[Asiad @CosyCornerL]

@UKHofficial @sarahjolney1 "Very strong future for our hospitality industry under labour" is an absolute joke, the will be no industry left this time next year

[Asiad @CosyCornerL]

@UKHofficial @UKHospKate @BBCBreakfast Zero help for hospitality, unbelievable with the amount of closures. They just done care about the industry

[Kate Nicholls OBE @UKHospKate]

Not just our pubs but also neighbourhood restaurants, independent hotels and mucus venues. The driven by the costs of doing business outstripping demand or undermining investment - it has to change

[Kate Nicholls OBE @UKHospKate]

Very worrying the number of independent businesses reporting the same thing this week - small businesses in particular taken by surprise and only now realising the full impact of payroll increases. We need urgent reappraisal