{"id":557501,"date":"2026-08-03T11:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/557501\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T11:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:13:17","slug":"could-a-tax-cut-for-pubs-work-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/557501\/","title":{"rendered":"Could a tax cut for pubs work in New Zealand?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year alone saw almost 400 hospitality businesses go into liquidation in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0the UK though, newly appointed Prime Minister Andy Burnham reckons he&#8217;s got just the fix &#8211; a 20 percent cut to business tax rates for pubs, clubs, and live music venues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Should we be following in Burnham&#8217;s footsteps? Economist Cameron Bagrie joins Emile Donovan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4M37J3V_image_crop_131409.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"630\" alt=\"Cheerful friends in the pub. Drinking beer, talking, having fun. Meeting friends after work\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: 123RF\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year alone saw almost 400 hospitality businesses go into liquidation in New Zealand. In\u00a0the UK though, newly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-557501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}