I managed finally to book a couple of IHG properties in the UK. As I expected, the rates are the same as they were before the temporary reduction in United Kingdom VAT for service industries which is now applied until 12th January. They haven't passed on the reduction to customers. This is, perhaps, understandable, as there was no obligation to do so, though I understand Marriott have said they will. But, when you click on price details for a particular booking, IHG have now marked the prices as 'including taxes of 5%', instead of the former 20%.

So we shall need to check our statements and make sure our points have been awarded on all but 5% of our spend, rather than the normal all but 20%. The reduction applies to restaurants too,