Pubs across Sheffield set to unite over ‘unfair’ tax laws

Multiple Wetherspoons pubs, including The Bankers Draft, Benjamin Huntsman, are set to decrease prices on Thursday, in protest of VAT laws.

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00:00I mean over the years we've done a number of tax parity days and I think

00:06the key thing from our company is just to raise a little bit more awareness

00:10between for our customers and for local officials and maybe even national

00:16officials as well.

00:18How important are pubs and restaurants to the national economy and the local one in Sheffield particularly with the turnout today how

00:24important are pubs to the lives of people as well as the economic factors

00:28that pubs and restaurants play as a whole?

00:30I believe that pubs play a role in society to allow people to come out and

00:39just have conversation and not feel so lonely at times. Apart from that we're

00:46drawing people into the city centre to spend their hard-earned money and so

00:54grow the wider economy too. I think it's very important to provide those leisure

01:00facilities for people to unwind and to go out and enjoy themselves.