Bleak future for the bingo clubs in Kingdom

According to Mike Lowe, the operations manager of Premier Bingo, all the bingo clubs in the Kingdom have to be provided with a better system of taxation or they will end up with a dark future.

 

He proposes that the Government tax the bingo industry just as it taxes the remaining gaming industry. This call was made about a week after his lodging of a petition in the Scottish Parliament.

 

This petition urges that the Scottish Government recognize bingo clubs that have been affected by the smoking ban and unfair form of taxation.

 

This petition also urges the parliament to seek a similar form of taxing for the bingo industry, as the rest of the gaming industry, to the UK Government.

 

According to Claire Baker, the bingo industry was now going through an ‘ageing clientele’; and this was the reason they had to turn to the Treasury to find out what was right about the taxation situation that the bingo clubs were going through at the moment.

 

Mike Lowe stated that both the tax situation and the effects of the smoking ban had placed a great affect on the bingo industry.

 

He says that since bingo clubs pay both VAT and Gross Profits Tax (GPT), he requests that the unfair taxation system also provides bingo clubs with some VAT relief and thus give bingo operators with some breathing space.

 

According to him, if this was done, it was very possible that further operations or bingo clubs need not close at all.

 

 

 

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