11/08/2026
Good Morning To You All
I Hope You Are All keeping Well.
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I am so glad that finally, We are being listened to.
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester , Christian Wakeford MP, Bury Labour Group , Labour North West , Elsie Blundell - MP for Heywood & Middleton North.
We All have known for a long time that these 'high street' shops have Not contributed their fare share of income to society, they have been money laundering, human trafficking, grooming, employing illegal immigrants, drug dealing and so on.
And now finally realising All these years, and I have been campaigning for years.
The collaboration of agencies and councils are getting the resources to tackle this issue.
If you tackle the dodgy shops, you tackle everything, it is a domino effect.
Also, I am hoping that in the October budget that All these shops start paying business rates and Will Not get Small Business rate relief and have to pay Vat and paye/nics.
If your RV (rateable value) is below 12k, the occupier Does Not pay any business rates to the council, regardless of turnover of revenue
The threshold to pay Vat to HMRC is 90k, so all the 'dodgy shops revenue turnover is 89k, they operate as cash only.
Illegal immigrants working in these shops get paid by cash by the owner(s), so No paye or national insurance contributions to DWP.
If the government is serious, they have the power to change legislations then that Will raise Billions of pounds to give to our public services.
All these years these shops have Not paid business rates, vat, paye/nics, it is Not Fair for the compliant and legitimate business, who are struggling and closing down.
Councils must have more power, resources and start collecting revenue from the 'dodgy shop'.
Keep up the good work guys and Thank You for listening and hearing us, hard working class tax payers and law abiding citizens.
❤️🙏