Hospitality wants a VAT cut. But so does everyone else

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Tom Kerridge is to spearhead #VATsTheProblem, a campaign calling on the government to halve the VAT rate on the food and drink served in eateries, boozers and the like

“I want never gets.” I heard that many times as a little’un in the 1970s. It’s an idiom typically directed at a child demanding, say, an Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle. But it’s also something taxpaying adults should perhaps bear in mind. I’m looking at you, Tom Kerridge.

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