A Financial Climate For Growth

As businesses that are always planning for the long term, Family Brewers are keen to be part of the solution in returning the UK economy to significant growth and as such we welcome the Government’s focus on openness and clarity. 

Family Brewers support the Government’s plans for a review of the UK business rates system to end the unfair burden it places on bricks and mortar businesses like ours, as compared to giant multi-national operations and large online retailers. This would level the playing field for British businesses, and allow us to invest even more into training and upskilling our teams and growing our operations. 

Family Brewers support the current preferential duty rate for draught beer in pubs, especially during the current economic downturn. It allows our managers and tenants to keep prices down at the bar in order to keep pub-goers in pubs, and not drinking at home. We would support an increase in this draught duty differential rate to help keep local pubs competitive against the supermarket giants. 

Family Brewers support a lower VAT rate for the hospitality sector, to provide a level playing field with supermarkets and boost the UK’s tourism offer. This would enable our pubs to grow customer numbers by keeping prices down, something that ultimately helps to keep community pubs open and businesses like ours healthy.