{"id":397479,"date":"2026-01-29T20:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397479\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T20:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:53:13","slug":"north-east-hospitality-sector-calls-for-equal-tax-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397479\/","title":{"rendered":"North East hospitality sector calls for equal tax help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stephen Patterson, CEO of NE1 Ltd, the Business Improvement District company for Newcastle City Centre, said: &#8220;It is encouraging that the chancellor has listened to our concerns and the calls from businesses to offer some concessions to the pub trade and music venues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he said the measures do not fix fundamental problems with the business rates system and many companies feel they face a &#8220;slow death march to oblivion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The chancellor&#8217;s offer of support this week came after she had previously announced changes in the Budget that would increase business rates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When asked why help would not be extended to other businesses, Reeves said pubs &#8220;are different&#8221; and a &#8220;huge community asset&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Emma Lewell, the Labour MP for South Shields, said: &#8220;Government support must expand to the whole sector, not just pubs and music venues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Treasury spokesperson said the government&#8217;s package will stop bills rising for over half of business properties. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added: &#8220;We will look at how hotels are valued for business rates to make sure the system is fair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Later this year we&#8217;ll publish a new High Streets Strategy to do even more to back Britain&#8217;s high streets.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Patterson, CEO of NE1 Ltd, the Business Improvement District company for Newcastle City Centre, said: &#8220;It is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-397479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}