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Need a lawyer?..professional service providers you need

Professional services

Need a lawyer?..professional service providers you need

By Fiona McLelland

You’re probably in the business because you love running your own pub. Not for the love of paperwork, legalities and accounts. That’s where professional service providers come in. 

Licensed Trade Charity launches sickness guidance

Guidance

Licensed Trade Charity launches sickness guidance

By Ellie Bothwell

The Licensed Trade Charity has launched new guidance to help prevent long-term sick and disabled people working in the licensed trade getting into financial problems.

Pubs stocktaking advice

How using a stocktaker can help your pub

By ILTSA

You wouldn’t dream of buying a new car and not having it serviced by a competent mechanic, so why take such chances with your business? A stocktaker can provide advice on a regular basis at a reasonable cost. The Institute of Licensed Trade Stock Auditors...

Coulson: no substitute for careful checking

The high cost of shoddy advice

By Peter Coulson

Be wary of the number of advisers and agents, all promising to save you money or sort out your financial problems, says Peter Coulson.

Coulson: benefits hinge on obligation to reside on the premises

Taxation of live-in benefits

By Peter Coulson

Peter Coulson clears up the grey area over live-in benefits for licensees living above their pub.

Coulson: trade under too much pressure

Home Office runs a self-fulfilling prophecy

By Peter Coulson

In my time working with the licensed trade, I have never known it to be under so much pressure to comply with rules and regulations, says Peter Coulson.

Coercion in disguise

Coercion in disguise

By Peter Coulson

The idea of "voluntary" agreements has been around for a long time in the licensed trade, and has not improved with age. The latest, in Rotherham,...

Coulson: innocent condemned with guilty

Keeping a sense of proportion

By Peter Coulson

Alcohol retailing is being slowly demonised, presented as an industry that requires almost a strait-jacket of laws to keep it controlled, says Peter Coulson.

Coulson: pub paperwork should be cut

Pen-pushing pain for pubs

By Peter Coulson

At a time when the police themselves have been bitterly complaining about the amount of paperwork they are required to complete why is it that they are pushing more forms in front of the licensed trade?

Coulson: copyright still a thorny issue

Copyright is still a battle of wills

By Peter Coulson

Although it takes the form of a licence, copyright in music still presents the trade with a thorny problem. It is not a simple licence with a fixed...

Andrew Meadowcroft

Andrew Meadowcroft

Andrew Meadowcroft, head of licensed trade, Barclays bank Corporate goal for the year? Helping our customers achieve their aims might sound like a...

The three-year itch

The three-year itch

This is the time when every local council in England and Wales should be consulting with the licensed trade on changes they propose to make to their...

Peter Coulson

Red tape holds sway over common sense

By Peter Coulson

I have often remarked that the licensed trade has a roller-coaster affair with Government and politicians. For some periods, everything is grand,...

Measuring up

Measuring up

As members of the licensed trade you will be in no doubt that you are entering into - if not already firmly ensconced in - a significantly more...

Taking the fear

Taking the fear

out of finance Starting out in business can be a daunting prospect for even the most upbeat of characters, but, as GRAHAM RIDOUT explains, proper...

Pensions time-bomb

Pensions time-bomb

by Steve Hemsley The licensed trade is sitting on a pensions time-bomb with many landlords facing a grim future and being forced to work beyond the...

Trade associations

Trade associations

The support and experience of other people in the same situation can be of huge benefit to a licensee when the pressure is on. John Porter looks at...

Using the internet

Using the internet

There's no escaping the internet these days, but aside from the personal aspects, is it of any use to the licensed trade? We examine the three...