VAT Club campaigner Jacques Borel has admitted making mistakes, but vowed to continue to lead the campaign for a lower rate of VAT for hospitality businesses. Following revelations - published in ...

Tax campaigner Jacques Borel remains optimistic about the prospect of cut in VAT for the hospitality industry, despite recent criticism and a slowdown in membership growth. Borel told the Publican’s ...

THE UK hospitality industry would create more than 400,000 new jobs in three years if the Treasury slashed the rate of VAT paid by operators to 10 per cent, research has suggested. The claim is made ...

Confronted with a menu offering him the choice of “Le Wimpy,” “Le Super Wimpy,” “Le Wimpy King Size” or “Le Super Wimpy King Size”—all hamburgers—a Frenchman might be expected to cry out for a double ...

Pubs and restaurants are being urged to lower their prices by 7.5% for one day later this year as part of a campaign to cut VAT. A club set up by campaigner Jacques Borel is urging support for a Tax ...

Simply sign up to the European companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. An octogenarian French resistance fighter who introduced the hamburger into the homeland of haute cuisine has ...

BENJAMIN COHEN is a member of the Board of Accor. Mr. Cohen was previously Vice President, Public Restaurants at Jacques Borel International (1964-1968); member of the Management Committee and Chief ...

Cheap pub chain JD Wetherspoon on Friday launched a scathing attack on the government's "inequality" when it comes to taxing pubs versus supermarkets and restaurants. It even says it is killing the ...

More than two dozen of Britain's top pub and restaurant chains have joined forces to campaign for a cut in VAT to boost the country's ailing leisure industry. They have joined together to back French ...

Thousands of pubs and restaurants nationwide will cut their prices this Wednesday to show the Government how much a cut in VAT would fire up the economy. Forty leading chains, from Wetherspoons to ...

Thousands of pubs and restaurants across the UK are lowering their food and drink prices - for one day only. Up to 40 leading businesses are involved in the stunt, including the pub chain JD ...

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