Hotel chief ‘spitting blood’ over threat to restore Vat rate

The government is facing the prospect of a major battle over its plans to axe the special 9 per cent Vat rate, with the country’s largest hotelier this weekend saying he is “spitting blood” over the idea.

Pat McCann, who is chief executive of Dalata, the publicly quoted hotelier, told The Sunday Business Post that scrapping the special rate was “pathetic” and “nonsensical”.

He was strongly critical of a report published by the ...