{"id":555281,"date":"2026-07-23T06:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/555281\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T06:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:20:09","slug":"business-rates-to-be-cut-by-20-for-england-pubs-clubs-and-music-venues-business-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/555281\/","title":{"rendered":"Business rates to be cut by 20% for England pubs, clubs and music venues | Business rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Business rates will be cut by 20% for pubs, clubs and live music venues across England from April next year, Downing Street has announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The discount will apply to nearly 32,000 hospitality businesses and is expected to save a typical pub about \u00a31,100 annually, but will not be available to the very largest live music venues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The overhaul of business rates will be funded through a review of reliefs for businesses that \u201cdo not make a positive contribution to local communities\u201d such as vape shops and a crackdown on online marketplaces that do not comply with tax obligations, No 10 said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/andyburnham\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Burnham<\/a>, had previously pledged to raise taxes on out-of-town warehouses for online companies such as Amazon to help pay for cuts to rates for hospitality firms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Burnham said: \u201cThis government will back the businesses that people want to see in their communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cI said I would protect pubs and local high streets \u2013 the beating heart of our communities \u2013 and that\u2019s what we will do. What we\u2019re announcing today is just the start as we work to bring back hope across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The government will look to set out further reform to the wider business rates system, including small business rates relief, at the budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business rates will be cut by 20% for pubs, clubs and live music venues across England from April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,85,46],"class_list":["post-555281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}