{"id":707893,"date":"2026-07-23T23:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707893\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T23:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:32:16","slug":"pubs-cheer-business-rates-relief-while-other-firms-left-out-in-the-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707893\/","title":{"rendered":"Pubs cheer business rates relief while other firms &#8216;left out in the cold&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sam Lamiroy said Burnham&#8217;s announcement is a step in the right direction and shows the government is trying to help, but agrees with Nick Smith that &#8220;VAT is the real problem&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the turnover of a typical pub or restaurant can easily be between \u00a3500,000 and \u00a31m, meaning a \u00a31,000 saving &#8220;won&#8217;t make much difference&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The 20% drop in business rates is really just lip service, it won&#8217;t affect whether we survive or not, the real lever to pull is help with VAT, dropping the rate from 20% to 10% as it is in the rest of Europe,&#8221; he told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lamiroy also said he fears his Penzance-based bar and restaurant, 45 Queen Street, will not be considered a &#8220;pub&#8221; and so be ineligible under the terms of the support package.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And, urging the government to do more to support hospitality businesses, he said: &#8220;These are the first jobs for a lot of young people, it is a springboard into work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When these places shut, it&#8217;s not just my business and income that disappears, it is the entire team.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Lamiroy said Burnham&#8217;s announcement is a step in the right direction and shows the government is trying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-707893","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\/707893","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=707893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}