{"id":531967,"date":"2026-07-04T00:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T00:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/531967\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T00:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T00:37:25","slug":"galway-business-to-reduce-prices-after-vat-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/531967\/","title":{"rendered":"Galway business to reduce prices after VAT cut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week, the VAT rate for restaurants, catering services and hairdressers was cut from from 13.5% to 9%.<\/p>\n<p>The measure aims to support businesses facing increased cost pressures, and is expected to support over 150 thousand jobs in these sectors across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Co-owner of Trieste Caf\u00e9 and Wine Bar in Galway City, Barry Donovan, says he will be lowering his prices to reflect the new lower VAT rate\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/NEWSTALK202607030086.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/NEWSTALK202607030086.wav<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, the VAT rate for restaurants, catering services and hairdressers was cut from from 13.5% to 9%.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-531967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}