Did the 9% vat rate create those jobs? Because it definitely didn’t reduce the price of things.
The industry have taken us all for a ride for 2 years
Maybe it’ll be the 24,000 people that the hospitality sector love to treat like shit.
hospitality sector treat most employees like shit, Jack up the price on customers wherever they get a chance, but love to moan the second things aren’t going it’s way!
If I had my own way I’d be setting the vat rate at 30% for awhile to claim back some years of unpaid vat from them!
Hmm I’m a bit sceptical about this one.
Unless hospitality businesses are currently running over capacity or are extremely inefficient, they aren’t letting anybody go without closing the doors. Staff aren’t hired in hospitality because they’re “nice to have”.
This is also the sector which will cry about minimum wage increases.
How many tourism jobs has filling up 30% of the countries hotel, BnBs, guesthouses with refugees and asylum seekers cost?
Ya because the extra tenner is going to put you off going for 150 euro meal for 2…..
Twice, this industry was given a tax break. Both times , they proved they’re greedy scumbags. Hike the taxes on the fuckers. Cheaper to get a flight across a continent , get a hotel, and fly back than stay in some of these basic bitch hotels
Last time i checked they were struggling to get anyone to work in the hospitality sector, not sure they can afford to let them go.
Lies. The hotels federation is copying and pasting from the construction industry federation and ASTI cookbooks
Went for a meal before christmas with my GF. We decided to splash out. 45 quid for a bottle of red wine. Week later went into a local wine shop and saw the exact same bottle for 16 quid. That industry have well and truly had their cake and horsed into it.
Would this be same tourism and hospitality industry that has had almost full hotel occupancy, record high room rates, almost impossible to get a restaurant booking in the city centre and massive price increases for meals?
The industry protest too much.
Horseshit!
such bullshit
this industry rips people to an insane degree, to an embarrassing degree. i’d like to see their profit margins before I’d give into them.
The industry is short of workers. Reducing pressure in the labour market sounds like a win for almost everyone. The only substantial losers will be the owners of tourism properties who currently have excess profits from under-taxation capitalised into their property values – not the operating businesses or the workers. Returning VAT to its proper level cannot happen too soon.
Naah, it won’t.
Jack it up. Lower excise duty on alcohol to offset rising costs there.
Didn’t we just have a record amount of tax revenue last year??!
Isn’t there €30billion of apple tax set aside in an account for us?
Wasn’t the social housing budget underspend last year?
This country is the way it is purely out of FFFG ideological choices
There not passing on the benefit. Newspapers are doing the same.
Why editorialise that headline OP it’s diminishing and distracting. Clearly this is an industry report so it’s bound to be taking the piss and then also it’s Jim Power so that’s a ‘soft landing’ sort of a nono.
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Did the 9% vat rate create those jobs? Because it definitely didn’t reduce the price of things.
The industry have taken us all for a ride for 2 years
Maybe it’ll be the 24,000 people that the hospitality sector love to treat like shit.
hospitality sector treat most employees like shit, Jack up the price on customers wherever they get a chance, but love to moan the second things aren’t going it’s way!
If I had my own way I’d be setting the vat rate at 30% for awhile to claim back some years of unpaid vat from them!
Hmm I’m a bit sceptical about this one.
Unless hospitality businesses are currently running over capacity or are extremely inefficient, they aren’t letting anybody go without closing the doors. Staff aren’t hired in hospitality because they’re “nice to have”.
This is also the sector which will cry about minimum wage increases.
How many tourism jobs has filling up 30% of the countries hotel, BnBs, guesthouses with refugees and asylum seekers cost?
Ya because the extra tenner is going to put you off going for 150 euro meal for 2…..
Twice, this industry was given a tax break. Both times , they proved they’re greedy scumbags. Hike the taxes on the fuckers. Cheaper to get a flight across a continent , get a hotel, and fly back than stay in some of these basic bitch hotels
Last time i checked they were struggling to get anyone to work in the hospitality sector, not sure they can afford to let them go.
Lies. The hotels federation is copying and pasting from the construction industry federation and ASTI cookbooks
Went for a meal before christmas with my GF. We decided to splash out. 45 quid for a bottle of red wine. Week later went into a local wine shop and saw the exact same bottle for 16 quid. That industry have well and truly had their cake and horsed into it.
Would this be same tourism and hospitality industry that has had almost full hotel occupancy, record high room rates, almost impossible to get a restaurant booking in the city centre and massive price increases for meals?
The industry protest too much.
Horseshit!
such bullshit
this industry rips people to an insane degree, to an embarrassing degree. i’d like to see their profit margins before I’d give into them.
The industry is short of workers. Reducing pressure in the labour market sounds like a win for almost everyone. The only substantial losers will be the owners of tourism properties who currently have excess profits from under-taxation capitalised into their property values – not the operating businesses or the workers. Returning VAT to its proper level cannot happen too soon.
Naah, it won’t.
Jack it up. Lower excise duty on alcohol to offset rising costs there.
Didn’t we just have a record amount of tax revenue last year??!
Isn’t there €30billion of apple tax set aside in an account for us?
Wasn’t the social housing budget underspend last year?
This country is the way it is purely out of FFFG ideological choices
Read this headline with a pinch of salt [For reference](https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1088ehg/corporate_profits/). US slanted but still relevant.
There not passing on the benefit. Newspapers are doing the same.
Why editorialise that headline OP it’s diminishing and distracting. Clearly this is an industry report so it’s bound to be taking the piss and then also it’s Jim Power so that’s a ‘soft landing’ sort of a nono.
The hospitality lobby is huge in this country!