🚨Breaking Lower VAT rate on food essential for survival of hospitality sector – @ciarancannon & @GarretAhearn Hospitality businesses should be afforded the benefit of a lower VAT rate on food services if they are to continue to survive and thrive, two @FineGael politicians have said. finegael.ie/lower-vat-rate-o… via @FineGael – at Dublin City, Ireland

🚨Update - 9% Vat Taoiseach @LeoVaradkar is absolutely correct that a splitting of the VAT rate for food and accommodation within the hospitality sector is possible. Restaurants already apply separate VAT rates to food and alcohol on a bill for a meal, for example, and six other EU nations have already achieved food and accommodation decouplings. It is pivotal now that the Taoiseach and Finance Minister @mmcgrathtd support the reinstatement of the 9% VAT rate for food-led businesses, as his Government colleagues Ministers @simoncoveney and @nealerichmond have in recent weeks. We can not allow a situation of small, independent restaurant and cafés being subject to the same VAT rate as large accommodation providers. The reinstatement of the 9% VAT rate is the only way a viable future for our industry can be secured. irishexaminer.com/news/polit… – at Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland