‘Ever-widening gap’: Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin urges Burnham to cut more pub taxes

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JD Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin has called on the Prime Minister to go further to reduce the soaring tax burden faced by pubs.

The chairman of the UK’s best-known pub chain said Burnham’s decision to slash business rates for pubs is an “implicit recognition that the hospitality sector is over taxed”.

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