Businesses rates have been discounted since the pandemic.

Last year the usual rate was reduced by 75% and this financial year the discount was set at 40%.

However, it was announced on Wednesday that there would be no discount in the next financial year.

Instead, the government is lowering the overall “multiplier” used to calculate business rates.

But at the same time the government has readjusted the values of commercial property, with venues like Mr Moore’s pubs increasing – meaning he and other business owners will actually pay more.

Mr Moore said: “This is all, in my opinion, political manipulation to show the public that actually you should be getting a cheaper deal at the pubs, when in actual fact [Rachel Reeve] is putting taxes up elsewhere.

“It’s the same sort of thing that happens every year because of the budget,” he said.