{"id":110946,"date":"2025-10-09T10:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/110946\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T10:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:47:12","slug":"budget-2026-wexford-restaurant-owner-on-vat-reduction-whats-given-with-one-hand-is-taken-away-with-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/110946\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2026: Wexford restaurant owner on Vat reduction \u2013 \u2018What\u2019s given with one hand is taken away with the other\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Paul Behan, owner of the Lobster Pot in Wexford, says that big corporations don\u2019t deserve a Vat reduction\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paul Beehan, owner of the Lobster Pot restaurant in Carne, Co Wexford. Photo: Patrick Browne\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6f8dc127-474b-45fc-9474-7b75142c294f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Paul Beehan, owner of the Lobster Pot restaurant in Carne, Co Wexford. Photo: Patrick Browne<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Wexford restaurant owner has reacted to Budget 2026 and the decision to reduce the Vat rate for the food and catering business and hairdressing businesses from 13.5pc to 9pc, which will come into effect in July 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Finance Minister Pascal Donohoe said the measure reflected \u201cthe Government\u2019s commitment to support businesses in the services sector who are facing increased cost pressures.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Behan, owner of the Lobster Pot in Wexford, says that big corporations don\u2019t deserve a Vat reduction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[10472,79,4247,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-110946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-budget-2026","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-cillian-boggan","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}