The Yorkshire Post says: Last orders for more of our pubs unless leniency over business rates
Warnings earlier this month about how exorbitant business rates were forcing some pubs out of business have been further re-enforced today by confirmation that nearly 1,000 premises shut down last year.
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Hide AdNot only is this devastating for those owners, and their staff, who had worked tirelessly against these financial odds, but each and every closure is another lost amenity which only serves to devalue communities.
Given this, it is surely in the Government’s best interests for the Treasury to show leniency towards those licensed premises that are genuinely supportive of community and social groups. As this newspaper has said previously, it would be a false economy not to serve these pubs.