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Hospitality has felt a ‘Burnham Bounce’, but tax burdens and political instability are holding back investment, new member survey results from the British Beer and Pub Association, the British Institute of Innkeeping, UKHospitality and Hospitality Ulster reveal. The ‘Burnham Bounce’ was seen across the hospitality sector, with optimism that the change in leadership would benefit the sector more than doubling following the Prime Minister’s announcement to reduce business rates

Hospitality and the public unite over calls for parity with European VAT rates ahead of new Chancellor’s first budget. Following Andy Burnham’s 20% cut to business rates for pubs and live music venues in his first week as Prime Minister, the #VATsTheProblem campaign has reached another milestone, with 300,000 people having signed the petition supporting a new rate of 10% VAT for hospitality businesses. Recent figures from an industry tracker survey, conducted by UKHospitality