{"id":706636,"date":"2026-07-23T06:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706636\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T06:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:52:14","slug":"burnham-announces-20-cut-in-business-rates-for-pubs-clubs-and-music-venues-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706636\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnham announces 20% cut in business rates for pubs, clubs and music venues – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Not insignificant’: Pub owner welcomes announcement but wants more clarity on who is eligiblepublished at 07:28 BST<\/p>\n

07:28 BST<\/p>\n

\"AImage source, PA Media<\/p>\n

“Twenty percent is not an insignificant figure,” says Iain Hoskins, owner of Ma Pub Group which operates five hospitality venues across Liverpool. <\/p>\n

Hoskins tells the Today programme that since his business was revalued, the rates charge on his venues has increased by 100-150%, and he now pays between \u00a3200,000-\u00a3300,000 a year.<\/p>\n

But Hoskins stresses that “the devil is in the detail”, and he wants to hear more about what types of venues will qualify. <\/p>\n

“I got very excited last year when we were told about the 15% [rates cut]<\/a>,” he says.<\/p>\n

“It worked out that only one out of the five venues that we had qualified for that support because they didn’t have the word pub in the name,” he says. <\/p>\n

His venues are cafe bars, meaning they serve coffee in the day and alcoholic drinks at night, so he says: “I hope there’s a little bit more discretion when it comes to categorising the hospitality businesses that we operate”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Not insignificant’: Pub owner welcomes announcement but wants more clarity on who is eligiblepublished at 07:28 BST 07:28…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-706636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706636","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=706636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}