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British Beer and Pub Association director Martin Rawlings called for an end to duty on pub gaming machines – as a quick win to help struggling community pubs.
Speaking at the Community Pubs Inquiry, he said scrapping the £740 fee would encourage more people to have machines and mean greater profits for licensees, at a time when machine income is down 20%.
He said deregulation “simply isn’t happening” and “we need something very quick, very easy to help pubs”.
Rawlings also called for the Department for Culture, Media & Sport and local Government co-ordinator Lacors to be tougher on councils that put onerous conditions on licences.
For example, he said BBPA has written to 15 councils about their policy of making pubwatch compulsory. Just two have said they’ve changed their policy.
Kate Nicholls of the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers backed Rawlings, blaming some authorities for “gold plating” licence conditions.
Westminster, for example, wants any venue with CCTV as a
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Mark Dodds 04/07/2008 08:25:33 |
RE: BBPA: End duty on gaming machines It's about time the Guys and Dolls at the top of the big business chain got real about what's going on in this trade. Instead of palming off all lessees' and pint pullers' woes as being the result of Government policy; take a look at the income streams of their own paymasters and slash the royalty fee kick backs they take from the machine companies and half the 'profit' they grab from the tenants. It's THEIR responsibility to look after THEIR business NOT THE TAXPAYERS'. This post replies to this thread |
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| Mark Dodds 04/07/2008 08:29:25 |
RE: BBPA: End duty on gaming machines Sure Gerry Sutcliffe can take on a sponsorship role. As a democratically elected member of government he should be crusading for fairness for the lessees, licensees and workers in the pub industry. A man of the people for the people and find out what's been going on in the pub industry these past twenty years by talking to the people not the bosses. This post replies to this thread |
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| Stephen Corbett 04/07/2008 09:54:11 |
RE: BBPA: End duty on gaming machines I’ve got a better idea Mr Rawlings: Why don’t you ask the pubcos to return all the money to the tenants they receive in backdoor payments from the gaming machine companies and then you wouldn’t need to ask the tax payer to cover their corporate greed? These kickback payments equate to £25 a week from AWP’s, £11 a week from Jukeboxes, & £13 a week from pool tables, money that the tenants dont know anything about. That’s a combined total of over £2,500 pounds a year that you steal from each and every tenant, the very people you pretend to help in times of trouble. This isn’t the taxpayers problem it’s a pubco problem. edited by: Stephen Corbett at: 04/07/2008 09:54:19 This post replies to this thread |
