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‘There has to be a bolder shift’: retail and hospitality businesses assess relief in budget
Chancellor cuts business rates for more small businesses and limits rise in minimum wage for younger workers
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Airbnb feels like a soulless rip-off – and its hosts are revolting
Excuse me if I feel no sympathy for the property owners who have threatened strike action because guests no lo...
Business
Number of UK businesses in financial distress ‘at two-decade high’
Administrator BTG says 738,144 firms struggling as calls grow for more support for private sector in budget
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‘We’re not going to back down’: tiny Portland B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’
Three little letters - bnb-side’s name is a play on the local b-side arts festival, but Silicon Valley colossu...
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Hospitality industry urges Andy Burnham to lay out VAT cut plans
More than 800 businesses ask PM to make good on pledge, or risk more closures and job losses
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Ministers face backlash from hospitality industry over ‘tourist tax’ plans
Many mayors welcome power to impose tourist tax but industry warns of ‘irreparable harm’ and job losses
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The hospitality industry fears a tourist tax will deter visitors – the evidence says otherwise
Studies from hotspots across Europe that have introduced levies suggest they have no impact on visitor numbers
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Much of Europe already levies a tourist tax – a nice little earner for Italian hotspots
While England makes its first foray into unfamiliar territory, it’s proved a boon for Italy’s cash-strapped mu...
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UK politics: Visitor levy powers should be in place by March 2028 in England, ministers say – as it happened
Downing Street gives more details of plan, saying it would be charged as a percentage of accommodation costs,...