GDPR uncertainty remains a year on
Hospitality businesses can take opportunity to build more effective marketing databases, writes software developer Patrick Clover .
Employment law landscape shifts
Further legislative change is on the horizon and hospitality sector employers must keep up to speed, writes lawyer Laura Salmond .
Time rapidly running out for renewals
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, if your personal licence is due to expire on August 31, 2019, you absolutely must lodge a renewal application with your board in the next two weeks .
Rates remains a cloudy subject
As new bills begin to arrive the much-lauded cap is not the reprieve it seemed to be, writes rates specialist Martin Clarkson .
Make PLH renewal a top priority
I’ll be honest, I didn’t expect vast numbers of personal licence renewals to have been lodged .
Contentious tax should not have been swept through
An apparent disregard of the views of those in the industry – and the use of the tourist tax as some sort of political bargaining chip – has further riled operators and trade groups
Our industry needs greater support not another tax
The number of overseas visitors coming to Scotland at an all-time high, a bumper year for whisky tourism, a record season for cruise ships – 2018 wasn’t short on positive tourism tales
PLH renewal must be new year priority
Like most years before it, 2018 has brought its fair share of challenges for the trade
Time to move your tax online
Business owners should take steps now ahead of the April 2019 compliance deadline, writes Mel Stride MP
Stage almost set for the trade night of the year
In just three weeks’ time, we will celebrate the brightest stars in the Scottish trade
