{"id":17896,"date":"2026-02-02T01:42:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=17896"},"modified":"2026-02-02T01:42:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:42:40","slug":"findlay-demands-rates-cut-to-save-struggling-pubs-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=17896","title":{"rendered":"Findlay demands rates cut to save struggling pubs \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/George-IV-pub.png\" alt=\"George IV pub\" class=\"wp-image-72444 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"782\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/George-IV-pub.png\" alt=\"George IV pub\" class=\"wp-image-72444 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/George-IV-pub.png 782w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/George-IV-pub-600x394.png 600w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/George-IV-pub-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/George-IV-pub-768x504.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Pubs are facing higher costs when business rates increase<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Scottish Conservatives will today launch a campaign to save struggling pubs and demand ministers take action to cut business rates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Leader Russell Findlay will add his voice to broad industry and political concerns that many hospitality businesses are on the brink of collapse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He will visit an Ayrshire-based business today to demand urgent support from the SNP for the sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cIf they fail to do so, many will be forced to call last orders,\u201d he said ahead of forcing a vote in Holyrood on Wednesday calling for 100% rates relief for hospitality businesses with a value of up to \u00a3100,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Shadow business secretary Murdo Fraser\u00a0will also urge Finance Secretary Shona Robison to postpone her revaluation scheme which is set to hit businesses with rate rises of up to 300% in some cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">At the weekend, LibDem Economy spokesman Jamie Greene called on the Scottish government to emulate the Northern Ireland Executive and pause rates rises. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Association of Scotland\u2019s Self-Caterers (ASSC) has also called on Scottish Ministers to replicate Northern Ireland\u2019s approach.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Findlay #demands #rates #cut #save #struggling #pubs #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pubs are facing higher costs w&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[266,1450,265,4545,11357,5423,905,11353,11354,86,11355,11356,4614],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}