An extension of the lower VAT rate for the hospitality sector is being timed in a way to give the industry the best chance of getting back on its feet after Covid-19, according to Minister Eamon Ryan | Read more: https://t.co/NCy8xQ825S pic.twitter.com/rSK1jNLjp2
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) May 10, 2022
This morning.
Dublin Castle, Dublin 2.
Green Party leader and Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan arriving for cabinet.
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The carbon tax remains of course- which is what the whole peat nonsense was intended to deflect from.
Why is Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and Transport commenting on a lower VAT rate for the hospitality sector btw? Where is Catherine Martin?
SOQ
being in this sector we had a absolutely booming business before the covid 19
We spent 5 years building it from nothing and showed our first profit in 2019
Then our industry was shut down
The first year of lockdown we made a loss of €50K
If the VAT rate goes up again
You can look to see an extra 10% on top of your visit to dine anywhere and that’s just the start
You will see another 10% to cover the cost of the price gouging going on by suppliers utility providers staff wage increases to get skilled workers
In other words these price increases will be the death nell of the industry
Mind you you will have the solution to the housing crises and be drinking at home and living on take always
You’d easily know nobody in the department has tried to book a hotel in Dublin recently. Price gouging and profiteering on a grand scale, taking great advantage of the reduced VAT rate.
Daisy
Fact is no one can get staff
Just phone a agency for chefs
The rate is €35 per hour plus VAT then bankholidays €45 per hour plus VAT
We run a small country pub
Our last electricity bill was €4000.00 last month
All supplies for food etc has gone up at least 20% all staff wages if you can get them ie non agency staff has gone up 15%
Gas propane for cooking up 15% and interest rates about to increase
So it might appear to be price gouging but add in all the other proce gouging then it’s most probably not
In a delata hotel they need 7chefs to work each shift and that’s three shifts between breakfast lunch and dinner
And nearly all are agency staff because all hospitality staff had to be laid off due to the lock down
And then they found life after covid was 9 to 5 less stress no working unsociable hours and that’s the reality
We now cannot get staff and the season is apron us and instead of opening 7 days a week all we can muster is 5 days a week
So after this season we are closing down unless a miracle happens
I really do sympathise with small businesses. I think when people hear VAT rate reductions and hospitality sector, their minds go automatically to plush hotels charging 500 a night plus. As for not being able to get staff, it’s an unfortunate fallout of the government’s OTT reaction to covid
If staff knew they were going to get a decent wage and working conditions, they might come back to the hospitality industry. If exploitative employers can’t keep businesses afloat without gouging customers because people won’t slum it for them any more, maybe they shouldn’t be in business.
It’s not that easy Daisy
You tar the hospitality with a pretty scummy brush
Maybe realise it’s labour intensive
We pay our staff €11.50 per hour and they are eighteen years of age also on top of that tips which amount to €50 per shift tax free
So in a 38 hour week they get paid around €410 a week less tax which will be €350.00 after tax plus on top the tips €250 .00 a week or €660.00 then as they are students they get a portion of their tax back refunded
Hardly slave wages for a teenager
Always remember in a utopia you go on about a latte would cost €8.00 and you would be moaning about being gouged in the hotel you go to
Also each drink you buy a good 65% of that goes TO revenue for VAT of 23% and duty depending on if it’s beer wine or spirit
Then the glass you brink it in has to be cleaned unless disposable the wage to serve it the insurance needed for insurance just in case you trip or sit in a swing like Maria Bailey the rent the bank borrowings the energy cost the cost of the product and finally the 5% net profit the owner of the business makes for all the worry of their hospitality and the tax collection aspects plus the fact staff earn a living
It’s not exactly cheap cloths made in sweat shops in dunnes stores or sky subscriptions or getting a plumber to fix a sink at a €200 call out or a solicitor creaming off thousands or a dentist or GP Charging you an arm or a leg
Reduced VAT rate, yet prices have skyrocketed. FFGr economics
Oh anti everything guru, explain why that is the case and explain why SF would have done better?
Why are you so stupid? I’ve asked you every day almost for the past month. Go on, tell us. Don’t run away now. B9 LOL
see run away boy, everything you’re called out you personally attack. Fo on, explain why ffg created economic issues and why sf could solve them? Don’t be a chicken. You made the comment, not me. It’s a real simple question.
Surprise surprise from runaway boy. No reply. Has anyone noticed that all the conspiracy theory loons on here are all nordies, or possibly the same person, and always runaway when called out.
Go on Goo what bs are you going to comment on tonight before you get called out and have to run away. That’s why we have a divided Ireland. Cowards like you
For peats sake.
Duncan the greens are trying to ban peat
Meanwhile turfing them out will achieve nothing
They are all the same
We do not have government just administrators working on behalf of our creditors