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CuttheVAT is an industry led campaign to achieve a reduction in VAT to 5% for hairdressing salons.

Everybody wins:

• Customers - VAT on hairdressing is just a direct tax on hairdressing that comes straight out of clients' pockets.
• Hairdressers - less tax on their services will create more demand, leading to more job opportunities and more training development so they do a better job for the customer and have more job security.
• Salon owners will no longer act as tax collectors, a role that makes them feel like they are taking advantage of their clients as one of the best-liked service providers in the economy.
• Government - A Dutch trial proved that deeply reduced VAT results in more jobs, more apprentices, improved business, which boosts the economy, increases the number of businesses registered for VAT, resulting in more responsible business bringing in at least as much VAT overall.

"We have argued for nearly 20 years that hairdressing salons are a special case and deserve a lower rate of VAT. Now through CuttheVAT, we plan to lobby government harder than ever before and win the support of the general public. Such an approach would be a major boost to the general public who use these services as well as to businesses both in the short term and the long term".
Harry Walker, NHF president