Hospitality
Neale Richmond on splitting food Vat rate: ‘we need to keep these businesses open’
Junior finance minister defends decision to break ranks with his senior minister and call for tax changes
Restaurants and cafés could be in line for further state supports in the coming months amid a coalition row over the Vat rate for the industry in Ireland, a Fine Gael minister has said.
Neale Richmond, the junior enterprise minister, told the Business Post that he favoured splitting the Vat rate, which was hiked back up from the pandemic-era 9 per cent to 13.5 per cent last September, before this year’s budget.
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