Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin has hailed Tax Equality Day as an outstanding success.
Almost 900 Wetherspoon pubs across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, lowered their prices by 7.5 per cent on the day to highlight the benefit of a VAT reduction in the hospitality industry.
Tim Martin said: “Our like for like volumes (excluding new pubs) were up by 17 per cent against the same day last year.
“Apart from the fantastic sales increase on the day, the overriding benefit of the day was to get the important tax equality message over to the general public, which we achieved in our pubs and across the media.”