THREE Herefordshire Wetherspoon pubs are set to reduce their prices for a day.

Prices at the Kings Fee in Commercial Road, Hereford, the Duke’s Head in Corn Square, Leominster, and the Mail Rooms in Gloucester Road, Ross-on-Wye will drop by 7.5 per cent on September 14. For example, a customer spending £10 on food and drink would pay £9.25 on the same day.

This comes as part of Wetherspoon’s ‘tax equality day’, a campaign to highlight the disparity between VAT rates in the hospitality sector compared to other industries.

The Duke's Head manager, Jonathan Money, said: "Customers coming to The Duke's Head on Thursday, September 14 will find the price of their food and drink is lower than normal.

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"It is unfair that supermarkets pay zero VAT on food, but pubs pay 20 per cent. Pubs have been under fantastic pressure for decades due to the tax disadvantages it has with supermarkets.

"The tax benefit allows supermarkets to subsidise the selling price of beer. It doesn't make sense for the hospitality industry to subsidise supermarkets.

"We urge the Chancellor to create tax equality between pubs and supermarkets."

The ‘tax equality day’ discounts will be running in Wetherspoon pubs across the UK for the third time. The campaign started after VAT rates rose in 2021 as a response to the ending of the pandemic.

In a statement regarding the rise the Treasury said: “We've stood behind the hospitality sector throughout the pandemic with £400bn package of economy-wide support that saved millions of jobs."

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