29/05/2026
FFS! Can someone hide the windmill opposite? Can't be having a 'nice view' when the valuation officer comes around! 🤬
🤬 NICE PUB TAX?! 🤬
You actually couldn't make this up!
Just when you think the absolute clowns running the country have run out of ways to squeeze the hospitality industry dry, they invent a new one…🤡
Today’s massive headline: HMRC has issued new guidance to tax assessors for a brand new "Nice Pub Tax."
🤯 I am not joking!
🤯 That is literally what it is!
The geniuses at the Valuation Office Agency have been told that if your pub is actually nice - if you have a scenic view, a river frontage, a well-kept beer garden, a decent play area for the kids, or God forbid, you’ve put a bit of money into maintaining a historic "character property" - you’re getting slapped with even higher business rates!!! 🌄🦆🛝🏖️
Just think about the staggering “logic” of this for a second!
👉 As a publican, you work 90-hour weeks.
👉 You bleed yourself dry investing every spare penny into making your venue an attractive, welcoming place for the community.
👉 You fix the roof, you landscape the garden, you offer a premium menu so people actually want to eat your food.
And what is your reward from Rachel Reeves and her clipboard-wielding tax inspectors? 🧐
"Ooh, that’s a lovely beer garden you’ve got there, mate. Shame if someone were to absolutely tax the living daylights out of it."
🚨 They are literally penalizing success and taxing pride. 🚨
If you run a rundown, miserable concrete box with zero competition and a sticky carpet, congratulations - you’re fine. 👌
But if you try to give your customers something beautiful, you get a massive tax hike hidden under the guise of "modern revaluations" looking ahead to 2029. 📈🤬
We already lost the 40% retail and hospitality relief in April, my rates have already doubled, and now they’re actively hunting down destination country inns and gastropubs for more, because they have "too much appeal”!
What the actual f**k?!? 🤯
❌ It’s completely broken. They want us to survive on fresh air and good vibes, while they price the traditional British pub right out of existence.
🚨 THIS GOVERNMENT HAS LOST THE FU***NG PLOT!
🚨 RACHEL REEVES HAS OFFICIALLY DECLARED WAR ON HOSPITALITY!
I’m off to pour a pint and stare blankly at my beer garden before the council charges me a premium just for looking at the f**king bushes!
Tell me your thoughts below. Are you a publican facing a massive hike? Or a punter sick of watching your favourite local being bled dry? 👇
WE. NEED. TO. FIGHT. THIS. NOW!
