Sign This Petition To Make ALL ‘Work’ Lunches* in British Pubs 100% Tax Deductible.
The number of British boozers is shrinking like a crisp packet in a roaring pub fire, more than 11,000 have shut down over the last decade and two locals are closing every single day.
Pubs, the cornerstones of our communities for centuries, are currently facing a genuine battle to survive and thrive.
They’ve been continuously hit by a Perfect Storm. A horrendous combination of COVID, rising energy costs, the cost-of-living crisis, crippling business rates, streaming services and social media and the insidious creep of soulless high street hawkers of caffeine, cakes and steak bakes.
According to some rough sums we scribbled down on a beer mat, if things carry on the way they are, in six years pubs will be outnumbered by insipid coffee chains and Greggs.
How depressing. Literally. The coffee shop boom has been accompanied by a 70% rise in cases of anxiety. Coincidence? Course it’s not.
If we all keep drinking coffee at the same rate, the entire nation is going to s**t itself – and heaven knows our water companies can’t cope with that.
It’s time to rise up against the pastry-archy and breathe life back into our beleaguered boozers by signing this petition and making business lunches* entirely tax deductible.
This means that everyone can claim tax relief on pints, pies, salads and even wasabi nuts – as long as they are consumed within the cosy confines of a pub. Or the pub garden. You can enjoy them in the Gents if you want.
The average British household paid around £55k in income tax last year. If two adults from that household spent their lunchbreak in the ‘local’ three days a week, each spending £20 every day, then that tax bill would drop by more than 10% – a ‘saving’ of more £5,500.
Just by going to the pub.
Not only will this help pubs enormously, it will oil the wheels of economic growth and encourage entrepreneurial ideas!
After all some of humanity’s greatest breakthroughs were made in the pub – the discovery of DNA, the Enigma Code, Germ Theory, the Laws of Cricket and even “The Thinking Drinkers Almanac” – which you can buy here.
How do today’s generation of workers spend their lunch breaks? Eating meal deals whilst gawping at their Ex’s on social media? They need to get down the pub for lunch, courtesy of those stand-up guys at HMRC, and come up with an idea to kickstart the economy.
Let’s face it, this country is financially f***ed and the only way out of this monetary mess is with a pint in one hand and a pint (or maybe a pork scratching) in the other. Probably.
So sign the petition above. No dilly-dally.
By supporting the campaign, you will automatically roll into our prize draw to win a case of spirits worth £500! What’s more, you’ll also receive the Thinking Drinkers e-newsletter.
You guys are so lucky.
Cheers,
Ben & Tom – The Thinking Drinkers
*And maybe drinks. #drinklessdrinkbetter
