Make things more expensive to help - ticket tax

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BBC News - Arena and stadium ticket tax needed to save local venues, MPs say - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72pgdm4n97o

Is it just me or is it a case of MPs having no ideas beyond tax...

Why is it we need to make things harder for people to pay for to subsidise things they don't want to pay for.

What about reducing business rates on smaller venues, reducing corp tax or VAT. Nope let's just charge people more for things they like.

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Dingu said:

So your idea is to spend money from general taxation? Massively different…

No my suggestion is to make it cheaper for smaller venues to operate. Not to spend etc. So if rates at a venue are reduced the venue may survive if not it closes and becomes a coffee shop normal rates apply either way economy wins.

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BOR said:

The point, Gecko, is that it is in the interests of the arenas, that new bands come through out of the pub circuit to feed the arenas.

If you make it harder and harder for new bands to build a fan base, then ultimately, you won't have anyone new to perform in the arenas, therefore, the arenas need to fund the supply channels.

An artist in America became no1 in the billboards without a record company he is totally independent...so you don't need big brands to be a success you need a product people like. Tom Mcdonald I think he was called saw it on YouTube few weeks back. Anyway point is we don't need tax we need talented artists a and small venues not put out of business by high busiess rates.

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Kermit power said:

Gecko1978 said:

An artist in America became no1 in the billboards without a record company he is totally independent...so you don't need big brands to be a success you need a product people like. Tom Mcdonald I think he was called saw it on YouTube few weeks back. Anyway point is we don't need tax we need talented artists a and small venues not put out of business by high busiess rates.

Isn't that how the Arctic Monkeys started as well?

Don't know but they were talented was perhaps the key. Other small artists that have done it on their own (based on tiktok). Chinchilla (little girl gone), Ren, there will be more. Tax is not the answer but it's one politicians think we believe and seems some on here do.

Also look at issues at CO-OP arena a big venue still can't get act together.