Vat Club

JD Wetherspoon 'can no longer support' VAT Club

08-Dec-2015 By James Wallin

JD Wetherspoon has announced it has pulled out of the VAT Club Jacques Borel, according to BigHospitality's sister publication M&C Allegra Foodservice.

Tax Equality Day to highlight benefits of VAT cut

19-Mar-2014 By Carina Perkins

Campaigners are once again asking restaurants and pubs to slash prices on food and drink for a day in September to highlight the benefits of a VAT cut.

Borel’s VAT Club calls on support from pubs

10-Jul-2013 By Luke Nicholls

Just weeks after planning ‘Tax Parity Day’ for the hospitality industry, Jacques Borel’s VAT Club has written to every pub in the country, calling for their support in its on-going efforts to reduce VAT to 5 per cent.

Tax Parity Day: Borel's VAT Club plans national day of action

20-Jun-2013 By Luke Nicholls

UK hospitality businesses are charged 20 per cent VAT on all sales, whereas the supermarkets pay virtually no VAT on food sales. Is this far? The VAT Club JB, headed up by veteran campaigner Jacques Borel, certainly doesn’t think so and is launching a...

Punch Taverns joins Jacques Borel's VAT Club

06-Aug-2012 By Luke Nicholls

Punch Taverns, the UK’s second largest operator of tenanted pubs, has become the latest hospitality business to join Jacques Borel’s VAT Club which seeks to reduce VAT to five per cent as a way of stimulating job creation.