{"id":686444,"date":"2026-01-10T09:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686444\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T09:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:35:10","slug":"speldhurst-pub-landlord-slams-government-business-rate-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686444\/","title":{"rendered":"Speldhurst pub landlord slams government business rate rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to Politics South East, Sankey, who owns a number of hospitality venues in Kent, said: &#8220;Support for our industry needs to come from everywhere, it obviously has to come from the customer but we also need intelligent support from the administration, from the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The constant increasing of costs is making it unviable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the Treasury said that it was protecting pubs, restaurants and cafes with its \u00a34.3bn support package.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Without this support, pubs would face a 45% increase in the total bills they pay next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Because of the support we&#8217;ve put in place, we&#8217;ve got that down to just 4%,&#8221; they said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This comes on top of our efforts to ease licensing to help more venues offer pavement drinks and put on one-off events, maintaining our cut to alcohol duty on draught pints, and capping corporation tax.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite those claims, UK Hospitality says unless changed, business rates hikes could cost each business an extra \u00a332,000 over three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Politics South East is on BBC1 at 10:00 GMT on Sunday, then on the BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to Politics South East, Sankey, who owns a number of hospitality venues in Kent, said: &#8220;Support for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-686444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115870126946891689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}