A business in Derry City made a public appeal to MLAs after it was decided that non-domestic rates were to increase for pubs and hotels in Northern Ireland.
A 3% increase on regional rates were voted on by MLAs recently, while locally businesses already faced a 4.48% district rate hike.
Quaywest Restaurant shared a copy of their monthly electricity bill, totalling to almost £10,000.
Owner Tommy McBride says for the month of January, he didn’t make a profit:
