How is the council so powerless? If you can’t get it off the shady businesses hit the landlords. If they’re selling unsafe items shut them down, and make any new business get approval before literally setting up shop.
I knew these US Sweets Shops all over the UK are money laundering operations!
Doesn’t the council issue them business licences in the first place?
Will fake wonka give diarrhea or cancer?
“The council hopes the shops will all disappear.”
Or in other words it’s to much hassel for us to chase them and the governement departments that could also deal with it have been underfunded for the last 10 years and butchered by the latest policy decisions.
Who (apart from, I guess, American tourists) is buying all these sweets to make the shops this popular? American sweets are foul.
I am really confused by these shops that are all over london… they are always EMPTY. I went in and there were no prices on anything.. I asked what a small bag of candy was and the bloke said £25. I laughed out loud and asked what kind of criminal enterprise they were running here. I was just smirked at.
Shut them down then if they don’t pay tax. I’m pretty sure that our councils can make life hell for us and any other property in this country and now they’re saying they can’t do anything to get taxes.
Bullshit just turn the electric off or send the bailiffs round.
You know that mobile phone accessories shops everywhere.
Anybody thinks they are viable bussiness anywhere, let alone main streets?
They are money laundering venues since early mobiles and nobody did anything. Candy shops just using same tactics.
The best bet would be to make it so no more can open in the future to at least stop this happening further. If you cannot make these companies pay up and you will not shut existing ones, you need to do something to stop new scams opening in the near future. This is going to keep happening as long as the scam remains viable.
Mobile phone accessory shops that never sell anything have been doing this for years. They log fake cash sales, bin the stock, then “buy” more stock from their also fake suppliers. Classic money laundering.
Sounds like they got a sweet deal.
Ignoring the laundering thing… what the fuck 263k in business rates bills per store. Were these places open for a decade and not paying rates or something? Because that shit is eye watering
For those who don’t know – business rates have no relation to profit or anything like that. It’s a fixed rate you pay just for occupying space.
Friend of mine has said that he and his neighbours (in London) have suddenly started getting mail addressed to some businesses they have never heard of, as if they’re registered at their home addresses. Now squabbling with Companies House about it (because apparently the burden is on you to prove it’s actually your private residence, or some nonsense, while companies can just unilaterally register against your home address with seemingly no checks in place, or something??).
Wonder if this kind of bullshit has anything to do with that.
Then withdraw their trading licence and impound all goods and freeze their assets
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Oh, I was sure they would. What a disappointment.
How is the council so powerless? If you can’t get it off the shady businesses hit the landlords. If they’re selling unsafe items shut them down, and make any new business get approval before literally setting up shop.
I knew these US Sweets Shops all over the UK are money laundering operations!
Doesn’t the council issue them business licences in the first place?
Will fake wonka give diarrhea or cancer?
“The council hopes the shops will all disappear.”
Or in other words it’s to much hassel for us to chase them and the governement departments that could also deal with it have been underfunded for the last 10 years and butchered by the latest policy decisions.
Who (apart from, I guess, American tourists) is buying all these sweets to make the shops this popular? American sweets are foul.
I am really confused by these shops that are all over london… they are always EMPTY. I went in and there were no prices on anything.. I asked what a small bag of candy was and the bloke said £25. I laughed out loud and asked what kind of criminal enterprise they were running here. I was just smirked at.
Shut them down then if they don’t pay tax. I’m pretty sure that our councils can make life hell for us and any other property in this country and now they’re saying they can’t do anything to get taxes.
Bullshit just turn the electric off or send the bailiffs round.
You know that mobile phone accessories shops everywhere.
Anybody thinks they are viable bussiness anywhere, let alone main streets?
They are money laundering venues since early mobiles and nobody did anything. Candy shops just using same tactics.
The best bet would be to make it so no more can open in the future to at least stop this happening further. If you cannot make these companies pay up and you will not shut existing ones, you need to do something to stop new scams opening in the near future. This is going to keep happening as long as the scam remains viable.
Mobile phone accessory shops that never sell anything have been doing this for years. They log fake cash sales, bin the stock, then “buy” more stock from their also fake suppliers. Classic money laundering.
Sounds like they got a sweet deal.
Ignoring the laundering thing… what the fuck 263k in business rates bills per store. Were these places open for a decade and not paying rates or something? Because that shit is eye watering
For those who don’t know – business rates have no relation to profit or anything like that. It’s a fixed rate you pay just for occupying space.
Friend of mine has said that he and his neighbours (in London) have suddenly started getting mail addressed to some businesses they have never heard of, as if they’re registered at their home addresses. Now squabbling with Companies House about it (because apparently the burden is on you to prove it’s actually your private residence, or some nonsense, while companies can just unilaterally register against your home address with seemingly no checks in place, or something??).
Wonder if this kind of bullshit has anything to do with that.
Then withdraw their trading licence and impound all goods and freeze their assets