Act now to comply with data changes
New regulations on storing and using customer information will have major implications for hospitality businesses, writes Brian McCulloch.
Property market will return to good health
Apart from stating the obvious – that no one really knows where we are and what is happening – clients, buyers, stakeholders and even my wife all regularly ask me what the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown has been on the market so far
Rates delay bad news for trade
TIMING, so the mantra goes, is the golden rule of comedy.
That being the case, one can only conclude that finance minister John Swinney has no delusions of abandoning the day job in favour of a role as a stand-up.
Take last week’s announcement by the Scottish Government that it intends to fall in line with Westminster and delay the next rating revaluation from 2015 until 2017.
While the subject of property rates can never be described as a laughing matter, there was some irony in the fact the decision came in a consultation paper titled ‘Supporting Business – Promoting Growth’.
Trade needs a break if it is to flourish
IN just seven weeks time we will honour some of the very best people and premises across Scotland’s licensed trade.
The SLTN team is busy...
Trade must make voice heard on DRS
Industry needs to help shape deposit return scheme with hospitality interests at its core, writes Crieff Hydro’s Alexandra MacDonald .
Why the pandemic has shone a light on mental health in hospitality
Mental health issues cannot be swept under the carpet, writes Jane Rennie.
Trade can rise to challenges ahead
AS the trade surveys its prospects at the start of another year, it’s hard to imagine that 2011 will amount to anything more than...
Trade must act to access tax relief
Bar, restaurant and hotel owners could be missing out on substantial sums, writes tax adviser Andrew Stanley
THE low profile of capital allowances and the...
EU influence still holds sway in UK
Significant changes to employment law ‘unlikely’ in the short-term, says Marie Macdonald, head of employment law at MSHB Solicitors
ON June 23, the UK voted...
In Scotland David is beating Goliath
Recent high-profile closures have reinforced the resilience of Scotland’s independent restaurant scene, writes Alan Gordon .