Justin Mullender
@JustinMullender
Owner of @Pig_AndWhistle restaurant, Chelmsford. Two Rosette & multiple Best Essex Restaurant awards
In the @telegraph, our CEO @allen_m_simpson calls on the Government to “reverse the damage” facing the hospitality industry. “This starts with fixing NICs, lowering business rates and cutting VAT for hospitality businesses.” #TaxedOut Read more: telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/….
Dear @Tripadvisor @googlemaps Please can you create an app for the #hospitality industry so that we can review our guests… We’d rate about 99.9% as 5 stars but ours would definitely feature a few 1 star guests… #MentalHealthAwareness
Who’s up for creating a review platform for customers…?
Our @Pig_AndWhistle Restaurant, @KemiBadenoch is located in your constituency. We’re a fresh food, fine dine, busy and award winning restaurant in Essex but we’re being #TaxedOut Do we have your support for tax change?

Increases to employer NICs have resulted in 84,000 hospitality job losses since the Budget. Our Chair @UKHospKate told @BBCBreakfast that "you can't balance the nation's books on the backs of hospitality workers". We need to see the Government fix NICs, lower business rates…
"Hospitality has been the hardest hit. We have seen the biggest fall in job numbers." Our Chair @UKHospKate spoke to @BBCBreakfast about the devastating impact increases to employer NICs has had on jobs and how hospitality is being #TaxedOut. Read more: ukhospitality.org.uk/campaigns/taxe…
We're calling for the Government to permanently lower business rates for hospitality businesses in this autumn's Budget, alongside fixing NICs and a cut to VAT. The Daily Mail covers our calls for change, to stop hospitality businesses being #TaxedOut. dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/…
A VAT cut needs to be the top priority for the survival of hospitality as we know it. #CutTheVAT #TaxedOut
We're calling for the Government to permanently lower business rates for hospitality businesses in this autumn's Budget, alongside fixing NICs and a cut to VAT. The Daily Mail covers our calls for change, to stop hospitality businesses being #TaxedOut. dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/…
If the UK Government could do one single thing to help Hospitality what would that be? I will go 1st, 12.5% for Hospitality VAT.
“We desperately need to see action at the upcoming Budget." morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2025/0…
"The tax bill on a high street restaurant is twice the tax bill of a major bank, as a percentage of their profits," @allen_m_simpson told @TalkTV. The unjust tax bill facing hospitality is forcing them to be #TaxedOut. Join our calls for action: ukhospitality.org.uk/campaigns/taxe…
Speaking to @BBCBreakfast this morning about the impact of the Budget and how the sector is being #TaxedOut of jobs, growth and investment and the impact this has on consumers
Financially, the cost squeeze on hospitality is harder now than the covid era! Tax is destroying hospitality and this government doesn't care #TaxedOut

Couldn't agree more, I've be saying for months that this governments decisions are much harder for us in hospitality than the covid era. They are destroying hospitality We need a government that understands, this one doesn't care #TaxedOut
I’ve written to @KemiBadenoch using this map to support hospitality in the UK as we are being #TaxedOut visualisation.polimapper.co.uk/?dataSetKey=uk…
We're calling for the Government to lower business rates, fix NICs and cut VAT at the Budget, as hospitality is being #TaxedOut. Read more about our campaign in @CityAM 👇 cityam.com/uk-hospitality…
Last year, hospitality was creating thousands of jobs. But since the Budget we’ve been losing them. We need change, before we are #TaxedOut. Learn more about the campaign and how you can get involved here: ukhospitality.org.uk/campaigns/taxe…
Great to see @thismorning covering the plight of our pubs. Discussing the @beerandpub campaign and the fact that we are being #taxedout with a pub closing every single day. The hospitality industry needs immediate government intervention. #cutvat @UKHofficial @BIIandBIIAB
The PM URGENTLY needs to come out and categorically confirm no tax rises for Hospitality in the budget. We are already one of the most taxed sectors. Businesses are closing. 69,000 jobs have been lost since the last budget. Communities and High streets are being ripped apart.…
Are you listening @RachelReevesMP @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour If course you aren’t. Hospitality isn’t hip enough for you!
Other countries support hospitality with a lower VAT, hospitality in the UK pays a full 20%. The EU average VAT on hospitality is 10%-13%. The Government should follow the majority of European rival nations by reducing VAT on the sector. #TaxedOut