Majestic Bingo Faces Catastrophe
Down in Worchester, Roger Cooper Owner of the Majestic Bingo Hall, has recently started a petition to stop tax hikes on the bingo industry, which could if they carry on shut down Mr. Cooper’s business by forcing him to close. The only way that Mr. Cooper will be able to keep his bingo club open will result in him having to enforce unwanted measures.
That would either mean increasing the fares in which bingo clubbers pay to get into the Majestic Bingo club in Worchester or to decrease the cash prizes in which bingo players can win. Whatever the option that Mr. Cooper might have to take it is a no win situation! There is no over way out then to choose either of those two options, to stop his club being closed because of the 7% rise in tax profits in which the government put into action.
It seems that everything is just trying to spoil and close down Roger Cooper’s bingo club as he says “I have already been knocked by everything else – the smoking ban, utility bills and business rates have gone up, and now this”.
Before this 7% increase taxes stood at the rate of 15%, but now they are 22%, which may not seem much but that’s an extra 22% of profits that bingo clubs make ad will never see! In the case of Roger Cooper he will be losing about £560 a week and other bingo clubs could be losing more or less, but still this percentage rise is going to affect lots of bingo clubs dearly and some of them having disastrous endings.
The loss of that £560 a week will result in Mr. Cooper not being able to repair his building if it needs repairing or to reinvest his business making him become stuck, which will not allow him to move on any further in his career and bingo business, which in return could affect his bingo players in the long run.
At this present time Mr. Cooper is trying to think up some ideas of what he cut the cost but he is still scared for the future as he quotes “Luckily, in the good years I have kept the maintenance going but I worry what I will do if I get a major expense coming along.”
